{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-maps-england-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-maps-england-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1798",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to the Countryside (Maps) (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-the-countryside-maps-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000;\n“conclusive map” means a map issued by the Countryside Agency in conclusive form under section 9 of the Act;\n“reduced scale map” means a copy of a conclusive map in printed or electronic form which is on a smaller scale than the scale of the conclusive map (or any part of it) but which is on a scale of not less than 1/25,000.\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference to a period during which a conclusive map remains current is a reference to—\n(a) the period ending with the date on which Natural England issues a conclusive map on a review under section 10 of the Act (“a review conclusive map”) covering the whole area of land to which the conclusive map relates; or\n(b) where review conclusive maps are issued covering particular parts of that area, to the period ending with the date on which Natural England issues the last in a succession of such maps which together cover the whole of that area.\n(3) In these Regulations, a reference to a period during which a reduced scale map remains current is a reference to the period during which the conclusive map from which it is derived remains current.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The duty to prepare conclusive maps in section 9 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 is conferred on the “appropriate countryside body”, which (in relation to England) is defined in section 1(2)(a) of that Act. Section 1(2)(a) as originally drafted defined the Countryside Agency as the appropriate countryside body in relation to England, but this was amended to Natural England by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16), Schedule 11, Part 1, paragraph 154."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1798/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:23.223525+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."
}