The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 21st November 2002, in relation to England, sections 60 to 62 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (“the Act”).

Section 60 of the Act requires every local highway authority, other than an inner London authority, to prepare and publish a rights of way improvement plan within five years after the commencement of section 60 of the Act. The section also makes provision for review of the plan.

Section 61 of the Act contains supplemental provisions including provision requiring a local highway authority to consult before preparing or reviewing a rights of way improvement plan. This section also requires local highway authorities, in carrying out their functions under sections 60 and 61 of the Act, to have regard to guidance which may be given by the Secretary of State.

Section 62 provides that the council of an inner London borough or the Common Council of the City of London may, by resolution, adopt sections 60 and 61 of the Act.