SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Amendments relating to creation, stopping up and diversion of highways

Part IAmendments of Highways Act 1980

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1

Section 119A (diversion of footpaths and bridleways crossing railways) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (2)(b), for “so specified” there is substituted “specified in the order or determined under subsection (7) below”.

3

For subsection (7) there is substituted—

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Where it appears to the council that work requires to be done to bring the new site of the footpath or bridleway into a fit condition for use by the public, the council shall—

a

specify a date under subsection (2)(a) above, and

b

provide that so much of the order as extinguishes (in accordance with subsection (2)(b) above) a public right of way is not to come into force until the local highway authority for the new path or way certify that the work has been carried out.