{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-exclusions-and-restrictions-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-exclusions-and-restrictions-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2713",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to the Countryside (Exclusions and Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-exclusions-and-restrictions-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000;\n...\n“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000\n“right of access” means the right conferred by section 2(1);\n“working day” means any day other than—\n(a)a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday; or\n(b)any day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a notice in writing includes a reference to a notice given by means of an electronic communication.\n(3) In these Regulations references to sections are to sections of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.10.2011) by virtue of The Access to the Countryside (Exclusions and Restrictions) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2021), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2713/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:46:40.661639+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}