Commons

If an application did not comply with the Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) (Interim Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007/457), reg 5(4) enabled the registration authority to reject it without going through the procedure of giving notice to the landowner and others. But if the registration authority thought that the applicant could correct the errors, it could give him a reasonable opportunity to do so. If within the reasonable opportunity so given the applicant corrected the errors, the original application had full force and effect and therefore the Regulation had to be retrospective. Accordingly, reg 5(4) of the Regulations provided a means for curing deficiencies in an application which did not provide all the statutory particulars, and, once an application was so cured, it was treated as duly made on the date on which the original defective application had been lodged.