Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke with effect from 1^st 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 1^st 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).