EV-0232 — Commons Registration (Glamorgan) Act 1983 (c. ix): common land register only; no mention of village greens

EV ID	EV-0232
Title	Commons Registration (Glamorgan) Act 1983 (c. ix)
Date of document	Royal Assent 26 July 1983; in force 1 September 1983 (s.1(2))
Type	legislation (local Act)
Evidence label	LEGISLATION (public online copy)
Repository / reference	legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1983/9 (9 pages).
Status	HELD (public online copy). Full text read (OCR), 19 Oct 2026.
Provenance	Read in full by Tab’s research (flywheel cycle 13), 19 Oct 2026; catalogued by Tab at Sion Buckler’s request, 19 Oct 2026.
Related evidence	EV-0231 (Gazette notices); notice of the Bill: London Gazette, 3 Dec 1982, p.15857 (Gazette page)

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Quotation: Long title: “An Act to make provision for the validation of the registers of common land …”. Section 2(1)(b) defines “the Glamorgan register” as the register of common land kept for the former Glamorgan County Council area.

Finding: The Act covers the register of common land only. It does not mention the register of town or village greens, so it did not validate or redraw village green VG41. Validation under the Act was unit by unit (s.7), after newspaper notices and a period for representations (ss.4–6).

Negative search: no London Gazette notice by South Glamorgan County Council under the Act was found for 1983–87. Sections 4–5 required local newspaper notices, not Gazette notices, so any notices will be in the local press (from Sep–Oct 1983).

Proves: The 1983 Act did not apply to the village green register.

Does not prove: Anything about VG41’s own registration; its finality still rests on the Commons Registration Act 1965 procedure.