The Public Rights of Way (Registers) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Format of the registers

6.—(1) A register must be kept in electronic and paper form.

(2) The paper version of that register must be kept at the principal office of the authority.

(3) A register—

(a) must include an index which enables a person to trace any entry on the register and, in the case of the electronic version of the register, must include a search facility which enables postcode and keyword searches to be made; and

(b) may be kept in parts so that each part—

(i) relates to land within a particular area of the authority for which a community or town council has been established, and

(ii) contains the particulars required to be included on the register by these Regulations in respect of such land.

(4) In respect of the electronic version of the register, the authority must make—

(a) the register available for inspection by the public on its website or on a website maintained by it for that purpose; and

(b) provision to enable the register to be inspected at its principal office.

(5) An authority must keep the register in such manner as is suitable to enable a copy of any of the particulars contained on the register to be taken by or for any person who requests a copy in person at the principal office of the authority.