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National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

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51 General provisions as to long-distance routes.E+W

(1)Where it appears to [F1the Agency], as respects any part of England F2 . . ., that the public should be enabled to make extensive journeys on foot or on horseback [F3or on a bicycle not being a motor vehicle] along a particular route, being a route which for the whole or the greater part of its length does not pass along roads mainly used by vehicles, [F1the Agency] may prepare and submit to the Minister a report under this section.

(2)A report under this section shall contain a map showing the route, defining those parts thereof over which there exists a public right of way, and indicating in each case the nature of that right; and the report shall set out such proposals as [F1the Agency] may think fit—

(a)for the maintenance or improvement of any public path or road used as a public path along which the route passes;

(b)for the provision and maintenance of such new public paths as may be required for enabling the public to journey along the route;

(c)for the provision and operation of ferries where they are needed for completing the route; and

(d)for the provision of accommodation, meals and refreshments along the route.

(3)A report under this section may also include such recommendations as [F1the Agency] may think fit for the restriction of traffic on existing highways along which the route passes.

(4)Before preparing a report under this section [F1the Agency] shall consult every [F4National Park authority,]joint planning board, county council, . . . F5 and county district council through whose [F4Park or] area the route passes; and it shall be the duty of every such [F4authority,] board or council to furnish to [F1the Agency] such information as [F1the Agency] may reasonably require for the purposes of the report.

(5)A report under this section shall contain an estimate, in such form as the Minister may require, of the capital outlay likely to be incurred in carrying out any such proposals contained therein as are mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, of the annual cost of maintaining any existing public paths or roads used as public paths along which the route passes and any new public paths provided for by the proposals, and of the annual expenditure likely to be incurred by local authorities [F6and National Park authorities] in connection with the provision and operation of ferries, and the provision of accommodation, meals and refreshments, so far as those matters are provided for by the proposals.

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