Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Commons Registration (General) Regulations 1966 (1) by providing for applications to be made in appropriate cases by persons other than the owner of the relevant right or interest, and for the forms to be signed if necessary by an agent, and (2) by facilitating applications by the same person for the provisional registration of land both as common land and as a town or village green in a case where that person can only declare to a belief that the land is one or the other. The Regulations make revisions to the forms prescribed for these purposes, but the forms as originally prescribed may be used where suitable—

(a) in the case of applications for the registration of land as common land or as a town or village green, of rights of common over or claims to the ownership of such land, until 2nd January 1970 (the last date specified under the Commons Registration (Time Limits) Order 1966 (S.I. 1966/1470 (1966 III, p. 3976)) for making such applications), and

(b) in the case of applications for a note to be made in a register, for the amendment of a register in relation to a right of common, and for the removal of land from a register, until 30th June 1968, after which date the revised forms must be used.