SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9S Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Military Lands Act 1892 (c. 43)S

15(1)) The Military Lands Act 1892 shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph.S

(2) For section 13 (power to stop or divert footpaths) there shall be substituted the following section—

13In relation to a footpath crossing or near to land leased under this Act, the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 shall have effect as if in subsection one of section sixty-eight thereof (power of roads authorities to stop up roads by order) there were added to the grounds for stopping up a road the ground that the road crosses or runs inconveniently or dangerously near to such land.

In this section “footpath” has the same meaning as in the said Act of 1984..

(3)In section 25 (application to Scotland)—

(a)subsection (7) shall cease to have effect; and

(b)at the end there shall be added the following subsection—

(10)In section 16 of this Act—

(a)for the references to “highway” there shall be substituted references to “road”; and

(b)after the word “footpath” in subsection (2) there shall be inserted the words “within the meaning of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984”.