Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Coastal Access Reports (Consideration and Modification Procedure) (England) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st October 2010.

In these Regulations—

• “the 1949 Act” means the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949^f1;

• “AP” means the appointed person;

• “electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000^f2;

• “objection” means an objection about a report made under paragraph 3(1) of the Reports Schedule, and, in Part 5 (hearings and local inquiries), means the objection or objections to be considered at the hearing or inquiry in question;

• “other interested persons” means persons specified—

  1. (a)

     in any of paragraphs (b) to (e) of paragraph 2(2) of the Reports Schedule, or

  2. (b)

     in Schedule 1 (persons specified for the purposes of paragraph 2(2)(f) of the Reports Schedule);

• “relevant land” means that part of the affected land to which a particular objection relates, and includes any land which is the subject of a modification proposed by the objection;

• “report” means a coastal access report;

• “the Reports Schedule” means Schedule 1A to the 1949 Act;

• “submission date” means the date on which a report was submitted to the Secretary of State under section 51 of the 1949 Act (general provisions as to long-distance routes).