Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17 E+W Functions with Respect to National Parks and the Countryside

Part III E+W Miscellaneous Modifications of 1949 and 1968 Acts

Access to open country E+W

35 Any area in which section 61(1) and (2) of the 1949 Act (survey of access requirements) do not apply immediately before 1st April 1974 by virtue of section 61(3) of that Act shall on and after that date continue to be excluded from the operation of the said subsections (1) and (2) until they are adopted or applied to the area under the said subsection (3), and references in the said subsection (3) to a county borough and its council shall be respectively construed as references to any such area and the county council.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 17 para. 35 modified by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 7, Sch. 3 para. 5(9)

Valid from 01/04/1996

[F1 35A In relation to Wales, paragraph 35 above has effect as if—

(a) for “1974” there were substituted “1996”;

(b) for “and the county council” there were substituted “and the principal council”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 17 para. 35A inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 20(4), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 13 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch. 1

36 E+W Any county planning authority may require any other local planning authority having functions under Part V of the 1949 Act within the area of the county planning authority to give the county planning authority such information as may facilitate the discharge of the latter’s functions under section 62(2) or 63(1) of that Act (securing access) or section 78(1) of that Act (maps of land subject to public access).

37 The functions of a local planning authority under section 67, 68, 81 or 82 of the 1949 Act or section 20 of the 1968 Act (supplementary provisions as to access to land) in relation to land which is the subject of an access agreement or order under Part V of the 1949 Act, and the functions of such an authority under section 70 of the 1949 Act in relation to such land and any land held therewith, shall be functions of the authority by whom the agreement or order was made or, where such an order was made by a Minister of the Crown, of the county planning authority, and in those sections, in their application to such land, references to a local planning authority shall be construed accordingly.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 Sch. 17 para. 37 excluded (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 68(1), 125(1) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7)