Public path extinguishment orderE+W
2. In relation to an Order made under section 118 of the Highways Act 1980 (referred to in that Act as a “public path extinguishment order”(1)), being a section 53A Order, Form 3 in Schedule 1 to the Public Path Orders Regulations 1993 (being the form prescribed for such an Order) is amended as follows—
(a)insert, as a second paragraph of the preamble to the Order—
“This Order is also made under section 53A(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981 Act”) because it appears to the authority that the [title] definitive map and statement require modification in consequence of the occurrence of an event specified in section 53(3)(a)(i) of the 1981 Act, namely, the stopping up (as authorised by this Order) of a highway hitherto shown or required to be shown in the map and statement.”;
(b)insert, at the end of paragraph 1 of the Order, the words “, and thereupon the [title] definitive map and statement shall be modified accordingly”.
See the Highways Act 1980, section 118(1).