Countryside Act 1968

21 Amendments of Act of 1949

(1) Section 11(3) of the Act of 1949 (general powers of local planning authorities in National Parks: exclusion of powers under other Acts) shall cease to have effect.

(2) In section 51(1) of the Act of 1949 (general provisions as to long distance routes) after the word " horseback " there shall be inserted the words " or on a bicycle not being a motor vehicle ".

(3) In section 73(1) of the Act of 1949 (access orders: compensation payable earlier on the ground of special circumstances whereby the postponement of compensation will cause undue hardship) the words from " whereby " to " undue hardship " shall cease to have effect.

(4) In section 86(1)(b) of the Act of 1949 (information services to be provided by Commission) after the word " architectural" there shall be inserted the word " archaeological ".

(5) There shall be repealed so much of section 89(4) of the Act of 1949 as provides that the power under subsection (1) of that section (power to plant trees for preserving or enhancing natural beauty) does not include power to do anything which the council of a county, county borough or county district are or can be authorised to do by any other enactment.

(6) The definition of the expression " open-air recreation" in section 114(1) of the Act of 1949 (which excludes organised games from that expression) shall apply only for the purposes of Part V of that Act.

(7) In subsection (2) of the said section 114 (definition of preservation of natural beauty) for the words " the characteristic natural features, flora and fauna thereof " there shall be substituted the words " its flora, fauna and geological and physiographical features ", and (with a view to facilitating the consolidation of the appropriate parts of this Act and the Act of 1949) references in the Act of 1949 to the preservation of the natural beauty of an area shall be construed in the same way as references in this Act to the conservation of the natural beauty of an area.