Countryside Access Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Regulations 3(b) and 6(1)

SCHEDULE

1.  The beneficiary shall make the public access route available to the public without charge.

2.  The beneficiary shall maintain free and safe passage over the public access route.

3.  The beneficiary shall not erect new fences, plant trees, apply pesticides or undertake land improvements on or adjacent to the public access route without the prior written approval of the Department.

4.  The beneficiary shall keep the public access route and fields crossed by it substantially free of litter or other refuse.

5.  The beneficiary shall exclude all bulls over 10 months of age from the public access route and from any field crossed by such public access route.

6.  The beneficiary shall provide and maintain adequate means of entry and facilities necessary to the effective use of the public access route.

7.  The beneficiary shall not permit any of the following activities on the public access route or on fields crossed by it: camping, caravanning, organised games or sports, use of motor vehicles (except for motor vehicles used for agricultural operations on the land), or any other activity likely to have a detrimental effect upon the environment, without the prior written approval of the Department.

8.  The beneficiary shall not permit the riding of horses or cycles on the public access route, except to the extent given in the prior written permission of the Department.

9.  The beneficiary shall not close the public access route to the public other than for a number of days specified in accordance with the prior written permission of the Department. At least two weeks before any day on which the public access route is to be closed to the public under this paragraph, the beneficiary shall cause to be erected at any entry point to that route appropriate signs giving notice of that closure.

10.  The beneficiary shall effect public liability insurance cover of at least £1 million and shall maintain it for the duration of the undertakings referred to in regulation 3 and shall provide such evidence in relation to that insurance cover as the Department may require.

11.  On or adjacent to the public access route the beneficiary shall retain existing field boundaries and shall not remove any hedge, bank, ditch, dyke or wall or any part thereof, except with the prior written permission of the Department and shall maintain such hedges only in accordance with the written advice of the Department.