SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 6 Amendments relating to creation, stopping up and diversion of highways
Part I Amendments of Highways Act 1980
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In section 118 of the 1980 Act (stopping up of footpaths and bridleways) after subsection (6) there is inserted—
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The considerations to which—
a
the Secretary of State is to have regard in determining whether or not to confirm a public path extinguishment order, and
b
a council are to have regard in determining whether or not to confirm such an order as an unopposed order,
include any material provision of a rights of way improvement plan prepared by any local highway authority whose area includes land over which the order would extinguish a public right of way.