Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013

5 Publication etc. of maps

(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after an existing routes map or integrated network map prepared by a local authority has been approved by the Welsh Ministers, the local authority must—

(a) publish it in such manner as it considers appropriate,

(b) send a free copy to such persons as it considers appropriate,

(c) supply a copy of it, or a part of it, to any person on request either free of charge or at no more than the cost of providing the copy,

(d) cause a copy to be made available for inspection (at all reasonable hours) at such places as it considers appropriate, and

(e) give notice, in such manner as it considers appropriate, for bringing the attention of the public to the places at which a copy of it is available for inspection.

(2) In determining what it considers appropriate for the purposes of subsection (1) a local authority must have regard to guidance given by the Welsh Ministers.

(3) Where, in connection with an existing routes map which is approved by the Welsh Ministers, a local authority has submitted to them a statement and explanation under section 3(6) or a report under section 3(7), the local authority must—

(a) publish it in such manner as it considers appropriate,

(b) send a free copy to such persons as it considers appropriate,

(c) supply a copy of it, or of a part of it, to any person either free of charge or at no more than the cost of providing the copy,

(d) cause a copy to be made available for inspection (at all reasonable hours) at such places as it considers appropriate, and

(e) give notice, in such manner as it considers appropriate, for bringing the attention of the public to the places at which a copy of it is available for inspection.