Part I Access to the countryside

Chapter IV General

42 References to public places in existing enactments.

1

This section applies to any enactment which—

a

is contained in an Act passed before or in the same Session as this Act, and

b

relates to things done, or omitted to be done, in public places or places to which the public have access.

2

Regulations may provide that, in determining for the purposes of any specified enactment to which this section applies whether a place is a public place or a place to which the public have access, the right conferred by section 2(1), or access by virtue of that right, is to be disregarded, either generally or in prescribed cases.