The New Forest (Confirmation of Byelaws of the Verderers of the New Forest) Order 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1202
• Sections: 12

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the New Forest (Confirmation of Byelaws of the Verderers of the New Forest) Order 1990, and shall come into force on 1st July 1990.

(2) The New Forest (Confirmation of Byelaws of the Verderers of the New Forest) Orders 1978 and 1981 and this Order may be cited together as the New Forest (Confirmation of Byelaws of the Verderers of the New Forest) Orders 1978 to 1990.

Section 2 Confirmation of byelaws

The byelaws set out in the Schedule hereto and made by the Verderers of the New Forest in exercise of their hereinbefore recited powers are hereby confirmed.

Section 1

In byelaw 1(1), the definition of “licence” shall be deleted and for the definition of “Commoner” there shall be substituted the following definition:

“Commoner” means a person owning animals entitled to be in the Forest;

Section 2

For byelaw 4 there shall be substituted the following byelaw:

(4) No person shall cause or allow any horse, cattle, sheep or pig to roam at large or be depastured in the Forest unless such animals are entitled to be in the Forest by virtue of a right of common or a licence granted on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to a tenant of land in the Forest vested in the said Minister or in pursuance of a licence granted by the Verderers under section 2 of the New Forest Act 1879.

Section 3

In byelaw 5, the words “entitled to turn out animals in the Forest by virtue of a right of common” shall be deleted and for the words “turned out by him” in both places where those words occur there shall be substituted the words “owned by him at large”.

Section 4

In byelaw 6(1), after the word “to” where it occurs the second time there shall be inserted the words “roam at large or”.

Section 5

In byelaw 7(1), after the word “to” where it occurs the second time there shall be inserted the words “roam at large or”.

Section 6

In byelaw 8, after the word “out” there shall be inserted the words “or allow to roam at large”.

Section 7

In byelaw 16, after the word “to” where it occurs the first time there shall be inserted the words “roam at large or”.

Section 8

In byelaw 17, after the word “to” where it occurs the first time there shall be inserted the words “roam at large or”.

Section 9

In byelaw 19, for the word “commoner” there shall be substituted the word “person”.

Section 10

In byelaw 23(1), for the figures “4, 6, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22” there shall be substituted the figures “4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17”.