The Access to the Countryside (Maps) (England) Regulations 2013

Reduced scale maps E+W

4.—(1) Natural England must, in respect of every conclusive map, make a reduced scale map available for inspection on a website maintained by it for the period during which the reduced scale map remains current.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), Natural England must supply a reduced scale map in printed form to any person who requests such a map, and who pays to it such reasonable fee as Natural England may determine, at any time in the period during which the map remains current.

(3) Where a person requests a reduced scale map under paragraph (2) relating to only part of the area of land to which the conclusive map relates, they must provide Natural England with such information as it requires to enable that part to be identified, and Natural England must supply a reduced scale map relating, so far as practicable, to only that part.

(4) The proper officer of a county council, a council exercising the functions of a county council or a London borough, a district council or National Park authority must, in accordance with section 225(1) of the Local Government Act 1972(1) (the “1972 Act”), retain the reduced scale map for the period during which the map remains current for the purpose of it being made available for inspection and making copies in accordance with section 228(5) of that Act.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), “proper officer” is to be construed in accordance with section 270(3) of the 1972 Act.

(1)

1972 c. 70. Sections 225(1) and 228 have effect as if a National Park authority were a local authority by virtue of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 7, paragraph 17(2).