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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-severance-of-rights-wales-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/583",
  "legislation_title": "The Commons (Severance of Rights) (Wales) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-severance-of-rights-wales-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 9 of the Commons Act 2006, which is deemed, by section 9(7) of that Act, to have come into force on 28 June 2005, prevents, subject to exceptions, the severance of a right of common from the land to which it is attached.\nThis Order permits the temporary severance of a right of common to graze animals from the land to which the right is attached by enabling the leasing or licensing of the right to a third party for no more than three years (article 2(1)(a)) or by a lease or licence of the land without the right (article 2(1)(b)).\nThis Order comes into force on 1 March 2007, but has effect as from 28 June 2005 so that any lease or licence of a right of common to graze animals granted after that date for a period of three years or less is not void for those purposes by virtue of section 9(3) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/583/note",
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  "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."
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