Part I: functions relating to public rights of way | |
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1. Power to create footpath or bridleway by agreement.
| Section 25 of the Highways Act 1980 (c. 66). |
2. Power to create footpaths and bridleways.
| Section 26 of the Highways Act 1980. |
3. Duty to keep register of information with respect to maps, statements and declarations.
| Section 31A of the Highways Act 1980. |
4. Power to stop up footpaths and bridleways.
| Section 118 of the Highways Act 1980. |
5. Power to determine application for public path extinguishment order.
| Sections 118ZA and 118C(2) of the Highways Act 1980. |
6. Power to make a rail crossing extinguishment order.
| Section 118A of the Highways Act 1980. |
7. Power to make a special extinguishment order.
| Section 118B of the Highways Act 1980. |
8. Power to divert footpaths and bridleways.
| Section 119 of the Highways Act 1980. |
9. Power to make a public path diversion order.
| Sections 119ZA and 119C(4) of the Highways Act 1980. |
10. Power to make a rail crossing diversion order.
| Section 119A of the Highways Act 1980. |
11. Power to make a special diversion order.
| Section 119B of the Highways Act 1980. |
12. Power to require applicant for order to enter into agreement.
| Section 119C(3) of the Highways Act 1980. |
13. Power to make an SSSI diversion order.
| Section 119D of the Highways Act 1980. |
14. Duty to keep register with respect to applications under sections 118ZA, 118C, 119ZA and 119C of the Highways Act 1980.
| Section 121B of the Highways Act 1980. |
15. Power to decline to determine certain applications.
| Section 121C of the Highways Act 1980. |
16. Duty to assert and protect the rights of the public to use and enjoyment of highways.
| Section 130 of the Highways Act 1980. |
17. Duty to serve notice of proposed action in relation to obstruction.
| Section 130A of the Highways Act 1980. |
18. Power to apply for variation of order under section 130B of the Highways Act 1980.
| Section 130B(7) of the Highways Act 1980. |
19. Power to authorise temporary disturbance of surface of footpath or bridleway.
| Section 135 of the Highways Act 1980. |
20. Power temporarily to divert footpath or bridleway.
| Section 135A of the Highways Act 1980. |
21. Functions relating to the making good of damage and the removal of obstructions.
| Section 135B of the Highways Act 1980. |
22. Powers relating to the removal of things so deposited on highways as to be a nuisance.
| Section 149 of the Highways Act 1980. |
23. Power to extinguish certain public rights of way.
| Section 32 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67). |
24. Duty to keep definitive map and statement under review.
| Section 53 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69). |
25. Power to include modifications in other orders.
| Section 53A of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. |
26. Duty to keep register of prescribed information with respect to applications under section 53(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
| Section 53B of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. |
27. Duty to reclassify roads used as public paths.
| Section 54 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. |
28. Power to prepare map and statement by way of consolidation of definitive map and statement.
| Section 57A of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. |
29. Power to designate footpath as cycle track.
| Section 3 of the Cycle Tracks Act 1984 (c. 38). |
30. Power to extinguish public right of way over land acquired for clearance.
| Section 294 of the Housing Act 1981 (c. 68). |
31. Power to authorise stopping-up or diversion of footpath or bridleway.
| Section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. |
32. Power to extinguish public rights of way over land held for planning purposes.
| Section 258 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. |
33. Power to enter into agreements with respect to means of access.
| Section 35 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37). |
34. Power to provide access in absence of agreement.
| Section 37 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. |
Part II: other miscellaneous functions | |
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35. Functions relating to sea fisheries.
| Sections 1, 2, 10 and 19 of the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966 (c. 38). |
36. Power to make standing orders.
| Section 106 of, and paragraph 42 of Schedule 12 to, the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70). |
37. Power to appoint staff, and to determine the terms and conditions on which they hold office (inlcuding procedures for their dismissal).
| Section 112 of the Local Government Act 1972. |
38. Power to make standing orders as to contracts.
| Section 135 of the Local Government Act 1972. |
39. Duty to make arrangements for proper administration of financial affairs etc.
| Section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972. |
40. Power to appoint officers for particular purposes (appointment of “proper officers”).
| Section 270(3) of the Local Government Act 1972. |
41. Power to make limestone pavement order.
| Section 34(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69). |
42. Power to make closing order with respect to take-away food shops.
| Section 4 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30). |
43. Duty to designate officer as the head of the authority’s paid service, and to provide staff, etc.
| Section 4(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42). |
44. Duty to designate officer as the monitoring officer, and to provide staff, etc.
| Section 5(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. |
45. Duty to approve authority’s statement of accounts, income and expenditure and balance sheet, or record of payments and receipts (as the case may be).
| The Accounts and Audit Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/590). |
46. Powers relating to the protection of important hedgerows.
| The Hedgerows Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1160). |
47. Powers relating to the preservation of trees.
| Sections 197 to 214D of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and the Trees Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1892). |
48. Power to make payments or provide other benefits in cases of maladministration etc.
| Section 92 of the Local Government Act 2000.”. |