2.—(1) In these Regulations:
“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000;
“agent” (“asiant”) means any person acting on behalf of another person with that person’s authority;
“appeal” (“apêl”) has the meaning given in regulation 16;
“appeal form” (“ffurlen apêl”) means a document which, when completed, contains the information specified in regulation 16(5);
“appeal period” (“cyfnod apêl”) means the period of 6 weeks from the date of the decision giving rise to the appeal or, where that decision is a decision to give a direction, from the date of the direction;
“appellant” (“apelydd”) means the person bringing an appeal in accordance with regulation 16;
“the Council” (“y Cyngor”) means the Countryside Council for Wales;
“electronic communication” (“cyfathrebiad electronig”) has the meaning assigned to that term in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(1);
“the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;
“person” (“person”) and “persons” (“personau”) include individuals, corporations and unincorporated bodies;
“relevant local access forum” (“fforwm mynediad lleol perthnasol”) means a local access forum established under section 94 of the Act whose area of operation includes the land to which a direction or proposed direction relates;
“right of access” (“hawl mynediad”) means the right of the public, in relation to access land, conferred by section 2(1) of the Act; and
“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday; and a notice given after 4.30pm on a working day is to be treated as given on the next working day.
(2) Unless the context otherwise requires any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.
(3) In reckoning any period which is expressed in these Regulations to be a period from a given date, that date is to be excluded and, where the day or the last day on which anything is required by, or in pursuance with, these Regulations to be done is a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, bank holiday or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning, the requirement is to apply as if the reference to that day were a reference to the first day thereafter which is not one of the classes of days before-mentioned.