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Paragraph 19 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (c.97)

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph.

(2)

For section 26 substitute—

“ Application of Part III to Scotland

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In the application of this Part of this Act to Scotland the expression “limited owner”, in relation to land, means a liferenter in possession of that land.”.

(3)

In section 114(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “owner”—

(a)

after the words “except in Part III of this Act” insert “ or in relation to Scotland, ”; and

(b)

the words “and as respects Scotland has the meaning assigned to it by section twenty-six of this Act” shall cease to have effect.