# The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014, Regulation 9: Register maps

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to paragraph (4), every registration authority must, for each of its registers, keep up to date a register map showing all the land registered in that register, in accordance with this regulation.
(2) Every register map is to be based on the Ordnance Map.
(3) A register map may consist of one or more sheets, and further sheets may be added from time to time as necessary.
(4) Where any sheet of a register map was compiled before 1st July 1968, the registration authority—
(a) may retain that sheet as, or as part of, the register map in its existing form until the first occasion on which that sheet is required to be amended; and
(b) must, on or before that occasion, prepare a fresh edition of that sheet which complies with this regulation.
(5) Where a register map consists of more than one sheet—
(a) each sheet must bear a distinguishing number; and
(b) the sheets must be bound together, but so that sheets can be added or removed without damage.
(6) On every register map consisting of one sheet, and on every sheet of a register map consisting of more than one sheet—
(a) there must be included an entry in accordance with Standard Entry 1; and
(b) that entry must be stamped by, and signed on behalf of, the registration authority.
(7) Where the registration authority considers it expedient to show any details on a larger scale than the scale of its register map, it may insert an inset map for that purpose.
(8) Any new sheet which is added to a register map, or any fresh edition of a register map or sheet of a register map—
(a) where the land to be described consists wholly or predominantly of moorland, must be on a scale of not less than 1:10,560 (six inches to one mile); and
(b) in all other cases, must be on a scale of not less than 1:2,500.
(9) If an existing register map is to be amended (other than by adding a new sheet), the amendment must be shown, if necessary by means of an inset map—
(a) if the land to which the amendment relates consists wholly or predominantly of moorland, on a scale of not less than 1:10,560 (six inches to one mile); and
(b) in all other cases, on a scale of not less than 1:2,500.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3038/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/commons-registration-england-regulations-2014/regulation-9
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