EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations apply section 53A of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69) to the types of Order listed in regulation 3. Those Orders are made by local authorities for the purpose of creating, stopping up or diverting public rights of way, and by virtue of section 53A’s now applying to them may also provide for the required consequential modification of the definitive maps and statements which record such rights of way. Before the coming into force of these Regulations, the required modifications to the definitive maps and statements could only be effected by means of a separate modification Order.
These Regulations also—
(a)specify the relevant date for an Order to which section 53A applies, being the date on which the creation, stopping up or diversion of the right of way is to take effect (regulation 4);
(b)for those Orders listed in regulation 3 for which model forms are prescribed, prescribe further wording for those forms dealing with the modification to the definitive map and statement (regulation 5 and the Schedule);
(c)specify a scale of not less than 1:2,500 for any map contained in such an Order (regulation 6).
An impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations. A copy may be obtained from Defra (Sponsorship, Landscape and Recreation Division), Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6PN