2 Appointed days
1 27th September 2005 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions—
(a) section 51 of the Act (amendments to the 1981 Act and other Acts) in so far as it gives effect to the provisions referred to in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) below;
(b) paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 5 to the Act, to the extent that it inserts section 53B into the 1981 Act;
(c) paragraph 5 (insertion of subsections (7) and (8) into section 55 of the 1981 Act) of Part I of Schedule 5 to the Act; and
(d) section 69(2) of the Act (amendment of section 147(5) of the 1980 Act relating to the interpretation of references to agricultural land and to land being brought into use for agriculture for the purposes of section 147 of the 1980 Act).
2 27th September 2005 is also the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions, in so far as they are not already in force in consequence of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Commencement No 4) Order 2004—
(a) section 51 of the Act in so far as it gives effect to the provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (b) below;
(b) the following provisions of Part I of Schedule 5 to the Act–
(i) paragraph 8 (consolidation of definitive maps and statements);
(ii) paragraph 10 (amendment of Schedule 14 to the 1981 Act relating to applications for certain orders under Part III of that Act); and
(iii) paragraph 11 (amendment of Schedule 15 to the 1981 Act relating to the procedure in connection with certain orders under Part III of that Act);
(c) section 57 of the Act in so far as it gives effect to the provision referred to in sub-paragraph (d) below; and
(d) paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 6 (amendment of section 31 of the 1980 Act relating to dedication of way as highway presumed after public use for 20 years).
SI 2004/292.