{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/26",
  "legislation_title": "Commons Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Variation and revocation of establishment orders",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate national authority may by order under section 26 revoke a previous order under that section establishing a commons council only if it is satisfied that—\n(a) the council has ceased to operate;\n(b) the council is failing to discharge its functions in an effective manner; or\n(c) the council is, in discharging its functions, failing to have sufficient regard to the public interest as required by section 31.\n(2) An order under section 26 revoking a previous order under that section may include—\n(a) provision for the transfer of rights, property and liabilities of the commons council;\n(b) provision amending any enactment previously amended under section 36 in relation to the council.\n(3) Section 27 applies to an order under section 26 varying or revoking a previous order under that section as it applies to an order under that section establishing a commons council (but as if the references in section 27 to land specified in the order were to land affected by the variation or revocation).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 in force at 20.1.2010 for E. by S.I. 2010/61, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/26/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:20.796556+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}