Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000

5 E+W In section 55 of that Act (no further surveys or reviews under the National Parks and Access to the M1 Countryside Act 1949), after subsection (6) there is inserted—

“(7) Every way which—

(a) in pursuance of an order under subsection (5) is shown in a definitive map and statement as a byway open to all traffic, a bridleway or a footpath, and

(b) before the making of the order, was shown in the map and statement under review as a road used as a public path,

shall be a highway maintainable at the public expense.

(8) Subsection (7) does not oblige a highway authority to provide, on a way shown in a definitive map and statement as a byway open to all traffic, a metalled carriage-way or a carriage-way which is by any other means provided with a surface suitable for the passage of vehicles.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 5 para. 5 in force at 27.9.2005 for E. by S.I. 2005/2459, art. 2(1)(c)

I2 Sch. 5 para. 5 in force at 11.5.2006 for W. by S.I. 2006/1279, art. 2(f)(ii)

Marginal Citations

M1 1949 c. 97.