National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

92 Wardens

(1) A local authority may appoint such number of persons as may appear to the authority to be necessary or expedient to act as wardens as respects any land or waterway in relation to which byelaws made by the authority are in force under the last but one foregoing section, or in relation to which the authority have power to make such byelaws.

(2) The purposes for which wardens may be appointed by an authority under this section as respects any land or waterway are—

(a) to secure compliance with any byelaws made under the last but one foregoing section;

(b) to advise and assist the public as to any matter for which byelaws can be made under that section ; and

(c) to perform such other duties (if any) in relation to the land or waterway as the authority may determine.

(3) For the purpose of exercising any function conferred on him by or under this section a warden appointed thereunder may enter upon any land, or go on any waterway, comprised in an access agreement or order in force under Part V of this Act:

Provided that this subsection shall not confer any power of entry on land which is excepted land for the purposes of the said Part V.

(4) Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, the foregoing provisions of this section shall not authorise a warden appointed by an authority thereunder, on land or a waterway in which any person other than that authority has an interest, without the consent of that person to do anything which apart from this section would be actionable at his suit by virtue of that interest.