===5. National Structure===
i. <ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman"><li> Any reference to land is an administrative format within the Society andhas no actual or legal bearing on ‘real property’</li>ii. <li> Land not within the management of a local group is deemed to be atthe disposal of the Society.</li>iii. <li> Local groups shall hold sole rights of recruitment in the areas grantedto them under the Code of Law, unless the powers of the MembershipOfficer under R7v or vi have been exercised. These areas shall beprimarily based on the shire boundaries indicated in the DomesdaySurvey of 1086, which Survey shall take precedence over laterdocuments.</li>iv. <li> Other documents from the period may be researched where theDomesday Survey does not cover the area in question.</li>v. <li> Disputes over land shall be settled by the Lawspeaker, but parties to adispute will have access to the High Witan.</li>vi. <li> More than one local group may exist within a shire.</li></ol>
===5A. Land Grants and Formation of Groups===
i. <ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman"><li> Any Full Member of Regia, or person seeking Full Membership, wholives in an area not already granted to a local group may apply to theSociety, through the Eolder and the Lawspeaker, to set up a new groupin that area.</li>ii. <li> If accepted, a Grant of Land from the Society to the new group shall bedrawn up by the Lawspeaker. No group may be set up without a Grantof Land.</li>iii. <li> Any Full Member of the Society, resident in land already granted to alocal group, may, with the consent of the existing Group Leader, applyto set up a new group. Application for a Grant of Land shall be made tothe Eolder and the Lawspeaker.</li>iv. <li> In all normal circumstances, the boundaries of a Grant of Land appliedfor under 5Aiii above shall be drawn up by the group leader whoalready administers the land.</li>v. <li> Proposed Grants of Land shall in all circumstances be drawn up informal terms, giving exact geographical boundaries.</li>vi. <li> Proposed Grants of Land shall be dated, and submitted to theLawspeaker for ratification. Copies of the proposed Grant of Land shallbe sent by the Lawspeaker to the Eolder, the Society MembershipOfficer and anyone else who may be reasonably held to have aninterest within seven days of receipt of the proposal.</li>vii. <li> If no objection is lodged within thirty days of the Lawspeaker’s receiptof the proposal, the Lawspeaker shall proclaim the ratification of theLand Grant.</li>viii. <li> An area for recruiting and administration shall be formed by the Grantof Land, All Grants of Land are of equal status and will survive theadministrators responsible for their inception.ix. <li> Grants of Land shall revert to the grantor, whether the Society (under5Aii) or the former local group (under 5Aiii) if they fall vacant.</li>x. <li> An area shall fall vacant, and the local group cease to exist, if there arefewer than three paid-up Full Members of the group resident within itboth on 31st October and on the 1st May immediately following.</li>xi. <li> The HW may move to decide that a local group shall cease to exist,and its grant of land fall vacant, if, in the space of a calendar year, ithas failed to be represented in sufficient numbers at a sufficientnumber of Major Events without good cause. The HW shall takeaccount of attendance at local or area events, and at TrainingWeekends and other activities not open to the public, in determiningwhether a group is inactive or not. This regulation shall not apply tooverseas-based groups.</li>xii. <li> All other alterations to group boundaries must be notified to the HighWitan, through the Lawspeaker. They shall be ratified using theprocedures above.</li>xiii. <li> A group with thirty-six Full Members may apply to the High Witan to beaccorded the status of an Eorldom, and its leader to be accorded thestatus of an Eorl at a public ceremony if it be his wish.</li></ol>
===5B. Management of Groups===
