Paragraph 26 Public rights of way

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

Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv) words inserted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(i)
Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv)(bb) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(ii)
Sch. para. 13(5)(b) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(f)
Sch. para. 16(1)(a) word substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(g)

A farmer must not—

(a)

without lawful authority or excuse^f1, disturb the surface of a visible footpath, a visible bridleway, or any other visible highway which consists or comprises a carriageway other than a made-up carriageway, so as to render it inconvenient for the exercise of a public right of way; or

(b)

without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstruct the free passage along a visible highway.

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Footnotes

f1: See, in particular, section 134 of the Highways Act 1980 (1980 c. 66).