{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-and-rights-of-way-act-2000-commencement-no-10-order-2005/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-and-rights-of-way-act-2000-commencement-no-10-order-2005/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2752",
  "legislation_title": "The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-and-rights-of-way-act-2000-commencement-no-10-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed days",
  "text": "(1) 31st October 2005 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions—\n(a) section 2 (rights of public in relation to access land) in so far as it relates to any access land—\n(i) which is access land by virtue of section 1(1)(a) or (b); and\n(ii) which lies within an area covered by one of the maps in conclusive form issued by the Countryside Agency for the purposes of Part I on 1st July 2005 and 16th August 2005;\n(b) section 102 (which introduces Schedule 16) in so far as it relates to the provisions in Schedule 16 referred to in sub-paragraph (c) below;\n(c) Part I of Schedule 16 (repeals relating to access to the countryside) in so far as it relates to:\n(i) paragraph 35A of Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1972; and\n(ii) paragraph 13 of Schedule 6 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.\n(2) The day appointed for the coming into force of section 2 in so far as it relates to any access land—\n(a) which is access land solely by virtue of section 1(1)(e); and\n(b) which lies within an area covered by one of the maps in conclusive form issued by the Countryside Agency for the purposes of Part I on 1st July 2005 and 16th August 2005,\nis 31st October 2005 or the end of a period of six months beginning with the day on which the land is dedicated for the purposes of Part I under section 16 (dedication of land as access land), whichever is the later.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2752/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:27.783018+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."
}