{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-registration-new-land-regulations-1969/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-registration-new-land-regulations-1969/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1969/1843",
  "legislation_title": "The Commons Registration (New Land) Regulations 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-registration-new-land-regulations-1969",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Disposal of applications",
  "text": "(1) On receiving an application, the registration authority shall allot a distinguishing number to it, and shall mark the application form with that number.\n(2) Where a registration authority receives an application for the registration of a right of common affecting any coal or anthracite it shall, before entertaining the application, serve notice in writing to that effect upon the National Coal Board, giving the name and address of the applicant and particulars of the right of common, of the land over which it is exercisable and of the land (if any) to which it is attached.\n(3) The registration authority shall send the applicant a receipt for his application containing a statement of the number allotted thereto; and Form 6, if used for that purpose, shall be sufficient.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (7) below, a registration authority shall, on receipt of an application,—\n(a) send a notice in Form 33, 34 or 35, as appropriate, to every person (other than the applicant) whom the registration authority has reason to believe (whether from information supplied by the applicant or otherwise) to be an owner, lessee, tenant or occupier of any part of the land affected by the application, or to be likely to wish to object to the application;\n(b) publish in the concerned area, and display, such a notice as aforesaid, and send the notice and a copy of the application to every concerned authority;\n(c) affix such a notice to some conspicuous object on any part of the land which is open, unenclosed and unoccupied, unless it appears to the registration authority that such a course would not be reasonably practicable.\n(5) The date to be inserted in any notice under paragraph (4) above by which statements in objection to an application must be submitted to the registration authority shall be such as to allow an interval of not less than six weeks from the latest of the following dates, that is to say, the date on which the notice is displayed by the registration authority, or is published, or may reasonably be expected to be delivered in due course of post or to be displayed under paragraph (6) below.\n(6) Every concerned authority receiving, under this regulation, a notice and a copy of an application shall forthwith display copies of the notice, and shall keep the copy of the application available for public inspection at all reasonable times until informed by the registration authority of the disposal of the application.\n(7) Where an application appears to a registration authority after preliminary consideration not to be duly made, the authority may reject it without complying with paragraph (4) above, but where it appears to the authority that any action by the applicant might put the application in order, the authority shall not reject the application under this paragraph without first giving the applicant a reasonable opportunity of taking that action.\n(8) In this regulation “concerned area” means, in the case of a registration authority which is the council of a county borough, an area including the area of the county borough and the area of every concerned authority, and in any other case, an area including the area of every concerned authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2567",
      "affecting_title": "The Coal Industry Act 1994 (Consequential Modifications of Subordinate Legislation) Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/1843/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:04:38.063363+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}