Part I Access to the countryside

Chapter I Right of access

General

3 Power to extend to coastal land F1: Wales .

(1)

The F2Welsh Ministers may by order amend the definition of “open country” in section 1(2) so as to include F3as respects Wales a reference to coastal land or to coastal land of any description.

(2)

An order under this section may—

(a)

make consequential amendments of other provisions of this Part, and

(b)

modify the provisions of this Part in their application to land which is open country merely because it is coastal land.

(3)

In this section “coastal land” means—

(a)

the foreshore, and

(b)

land adjacent to the foreshore (including in particular any cliff, bank, barrier, dune, beach or flat which is adjacent to the foreshore).