Clause10
Commons Bill [Lords]
11:15 am
Jim Knight (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South Dorset, Labour)
In common law, it is impossible to convert a rightin gross into an attached right—by that, I mean turn a severed right into an attached right. The clause enablesrights of common held in gross to be attached to land. It will providea mechanism by which rights can be reattached, but there is nocompulsion. An application must be made by the owner of theright.