The Countryside Access (Means of Access, Appeals etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2005

Manner in, and period within, which an appeal is to be brought

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), an appeal to the National Assembly under section 38(1) of the Act (appeals against notices under section 36(3) or 37(1) of the Act concerning works with respect to means of access) may only be brought if notice is given to the National Assembly by sending or delivering a—

(a) completed appeal form to the National Assembly before the end of the appeal period; and

(b) copy of that completed appeal form to the access authority at the same time as that notice is sent or delivered to the National Assembly under sub-paragraph (a).

(2) Where an appeal is brought against a notice given under section 36(3) of the Act, the appeal period is the period specified in that notice within which the works specified in that notice are required to be carried out.

(3) Where an appeal is brought against a notice given under section 37(1) of the Act, the appeal period is the period specified in that notice after which the access authority intends to carry out the works specified in that notice.

(4) If a person who wishes to bring an appeal sends or delivers to the National Assembly written notice of that wish so that it is received by the National Assembly before the end of the appeal period, then, provided that person sends or delivers to the National Assembly a completed appeal form within such further period as the National Assembly may, in writing, require, that appeal form is to be treated as if it had been received before the end of the appeal period.

(5) An appeal form may be completed in either the English language or the Welsh language, but, if the appellant wishes the appeal to be dealt with in whole or in part through the medium of a language other than that in which the appeal form has been completed, the appeal form should contain, or be accompanied by, a request to that effect.