The Countryside Access (Exclusion or Restriction of Access) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Publication of decisions on directions

12.—(1) A copy of any direction given or, where regulation 9 applies and the decision of the relevant authority is not to give a direction, a notice to that effect, must, as soon as possible after the direction has been given or the decision not to give a direction has been taken, as the case may be:

(a) if it is reasonably practicable to do so, be published by the relevant authority on a web-site;

(b) if the direction was given (or would have been given had the relevant authority not decided not to give a direction) as a result of an application, be sent to the applicant, or the applicant’s agent, as the case may be;

(c) if the direction was given (or would have been given had the relevant authority not decided not to give a direction) under section 26 of the Act, be sent to the relevant advisory body (unless the relevant authority is the Council and the direction was proposed to be made under section 26(3)(a) of the Act);

(d) if a direction was given otherwise than on the application of the owner of the land to which it relates, and the identity of the owner is known to the relevant authority, be sent to the owner;

(e) if a direction was given (or would have been given had the relevant authority not decided not to give a direction) following consultation with a relevant local access forum in accordance with regulations 6(3), be sent to that local access forum;

(f) where a direction relates to land in respect of which the relevant authority is not also the access authority, and the direction is given under either section 24 or 25 of the Act, be sent to the access authority in respect of that land;

(g) where the relevant authority was required, before giving the direction, to consult any person under section 27(5) or 27(6) of the Act, be sent to that person; and

(h) where a direction is given by a relevant authority other than the Council, be sent to the Council.

(2) Where the relevant authority is required to send a copy of a direction which it has given, or to give notice that it has decided not to give a direction, to any person in accordance with paragraph (1)(b), (c) or (g), and the decision to give a direction in the terms in which it was given, or not to give a direction, as the case may be, was not in accordance with an application or other representation made by that person, the relevant authority must also, at the same time, send that person its reasons for that decision.