SCHEDULES

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

Part IAmendments of Highways Act 1980

11(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—

(7)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..