(1)A local authority may appoint such number of persons as may appear to the authority to be necessary or expedient to act as wardens as respects any land or waterway in relation to which byelaws made by the authority are in force under the last but one foregoing section, or in relation to which the authority have power to make such byelaws.
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(3)For the purpose of exercising any function conferred on him by or under this section a warden appointed thereunder may enter upon any land, or go on any waterway, comprised in an access agreement or order in force under Part V of this Act:
Provided that this subsection shall not confer any power of entry on land which is excepted land for the purposes of the said Part V.
(4)Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, the foregoing provisions of this section shall not authorise a warden appointed by an authority thereunder, on land or a waterway in which any person other than that authority has an interest, without the consent of that person to do anything which apart from this section would be actionable at his suit by virtue of that interest.
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 92(2), 93, 94 repealed by Countryside Act 1968 (c. 41, SIF 46:1), Sch. 5
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 92 amended by Countryside Act 1968 (c. 41, SIF 46:1), ss. 13(9)(10), 41(9)(10)
C2S. 92(1) extended by Mineral Workings Act 1985 (c. 12, SIF 86), s 49(2)
C3S. 92(3)(4) applied (coming into force in accordance with s. 1(2)-(4) of the amending Act) by 2002 c. i, ss. 1(2)-(4), 15(6) (with ss. 38, 39)