Part II

Public rights of way and road traffic

Public rights of way and definitive maps and statements

Redesignation of roads used as public paths.
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1
In the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (in this Act referred to as “the 1981 Act”), section 54 (duty to reclassify roads used as public paths) shall cease to have effect.
2
Every way which, immediately before the commencement of this section, is shown in any definitive map and statement as a road used as a public path shall be treated instead as shown as a restricted byway; and the expression “road used as a public path” shall not be used in any definitive map and statement to describe any way.
1981 c. 69.
S. 47 in force at 2.5.2006 for E. by S.I. 2006/1172, art. 2(a) (with art. 3)
S. 47 in force at 11.5.2006 for W. by S.I. 2006/1279, art. 2(a) (with art. 3)