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The Commons Registration (General) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2007

S.I. 2007/1032 · Made 26 March 2007

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COMMONS, ENGLAND

Made 26th March 2007

Laid before Parliament 29th March 2007

Coming into force 1st June 2007

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 19(1) of the Commons Registration Act 1965f1 and now vested in himf2, makes the following Regulations:

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Footnotes

f1

1965 c.64. See section 22(1) for the definitions of “the Minister” and “prescribed”.

f2

The functions of the Minister in relation to England were transferred to the Minister of Housing and Local Government by article 2(5) of the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources (Dissolution) Order 1967 (S.I. 1967/156). The functions of the Minister of Housing and Local Government were transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2(1) of the Secretary of State for Environment Order 1970 (S.I. 1970/1681).

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and application
  2. 2Revocations
  3. 3Revocations
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and application

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Commons Registration (General) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st June 2007.

(2)

These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

2Revocations

The following provisions of the Commons Registration (General) Regulations 1966f1 are revoked—

(a)

regulation 32;

(b)

in regulation 34(1), the words “for searches and official certificates of search, and”;

(c)

regulation 35;

(d)

in Schedule 1, Form 21 and its duplicate; and

(e)

in Schedule 3, the first and second items in the table.

3Revocations

The following Regulations are revoked—

(a)

the Commons Registration (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1982f1;

(b)

the Commons Registration (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1989f2; and

(c)

the Commons Registration (General) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003f3.

Signature

Barry Gardiner

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

26th March 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke with effect from 1st June 2007, in relation to England, provisions of the Commons Registration (General) Regulations 1966 relating to official searches of the commons registers and certificates of search. From 1st June 2007 it will instead be possible to search the commons registers by means of the Supplementary Enquiries of Local Authority Form CON29 Part II.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect of the change in the arrangements for searches of the commons registers was published for the Commons Act 2006 and copies are available on the Defra website (www.defra.gov.uk).