SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 Definitive maps and statements and restricted byways

Part I Amendments of Part III of Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

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1

Until the coming into force of section 47(1) of this Act, section 54 of the 1981 Act (duty to reclassify roads used as public paths) has effect as follows.

2

In subsection (2)—

a

for the words from the beginning to “by” there is substituted “ Where the particulars relating to any road used as a public path have been reviewed under subsection (1)(a), the definitive map and statement shall be modified so as to show that way by ”, and

b

the words from “and shall not” to the end are omitted.

3

In subsection (3), for the words “A road used as a public path” there is substituted “ Such a way ”.

4

After subsection (5) there is inserted—

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No order under this Part modifying a definitive map and statement, and no provision included by virtue of section 53A(2) in any order, shall use the expression “road used as a public path” to describe any way not already shown as such in the map and statement.