http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/41/section/4/2016-05-21Countryside Act 1968An Act to enlarge the functions of the Agency established under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, to confer new powers on local authorities and other bodies for the conservation and enhancement of natural beauty and for the benefit of those resorting to the countryside and to make other provision for the matters dealt with in the Act of 1949 and generally as respects the countryside, and to amend the law about trees and woodlands, and footpaths and bridleways, and other public paths.1985-04-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-17Expert Participation2016-05-21 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S. 1 cross-heading substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 89 (with Sch. 7)S. 4 omitted (21.5.2016) by virtue of Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(2)(a), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)