Part 7: Conservation Covenants Section 136: Duty of responsible bodies to make annual return
Section 136 requires a body designated as a responsible body to make an annual return to the Secretary of State, specifies certain information that the return should contain, and provides the Secretary of State with a power to specify by regulations other information that must be provided as part of the annual return.
	Subsections (4) and (5) give the Secretary of State the power to prescribe by regulations the information to be included in an annual return, the twelve-month period to which the return is to relate, and the date by which the return is to be made. In default of regulations making provision as to that period and that date, subsection (6) provides that the period and date are such period and date as the Secretary of State may direct.
	Subsection (10) clarifies that any information to be included in an annual return prescribed in regulations must relate to the responsible body, its activities, its conservation covenants, or the land covered by its conservation covenants.