The Access to the Countryside (Correction of Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) Regulations 2003 (revoked)

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Part I of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 establishes a new regime for access to the countryside. Under Part I maps prepared by the Countryside Agency (“the Agency”) will show registered common land and open country. The Access to the Countryside (Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1710, amended by S.I. 2003/32) made provision (in relation to England) in respect of the publication of maps issued in provisional and conclusive form (referred to in these Regulations as a “provisional map” and a “conclusive map” respectively).

These Regulations, which apply in relation to England only, make provision for the correction of provisional and conclusive maps in certain circumstances.

Regulations 3 and 4 prescribe the circumstances in which provisional and conclusive maps may be corrected by the Agency, and regulation 5 provides time limits for making such corrections. Regulation 6 requires the Agency to publicise the correction of a provisional or conclusive map. Under regulation 7 persons having an interest in any land to which the correction of a provisional map relates and persons interested in an appeal decision relating to land to which the correction of a conclusive map relates are required to be notified of the correction.

Regulation 8 requires that persons who have been sent a “reduced scale map” (a copy of a provisional or conclusive map on a smaller scale) to which a correction relates are given information about how the correction affects the map. Regulation 9 provides for the modification of any reduced scale map which is derived from a provisional or conclusive map to which a correction relates and which is made available on the internet, in local authority offices, in libraries and at locations where the map can be compared with registers of common land.

Regulation 10 provides a time limit for appealing against the showing of additional land on a provisional map where such a map has been corrected under regulation 3.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.