Clause12
Commons Bill [Lords]
Public Bill Committees, 25 April 2006, 11:15 am
Jim Knight (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South Dorset, Labour)
The clause requires a change in the ownership of aright of common that is held in gross to comply with prescribedrequirements. If it helps the Committee, lawyers call a right held ingross “incorporeal hereditament”, a term with which I amsure the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, if no one else, isfamiliar.