{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-recovery-of-costs-for-public-path-orders-regulations-1993/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-recovery-of-costs-for-public-path-orders-regulations-1993/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/407",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Recovery of Costs for Public Path Orders) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-recovery-of-costs-for-public-path-orders-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980;\n“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“authority” means a county council, a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London, the Council of the Isles of Scilly, a joint or special planning board constituted for a National Park by an order under paragraph 1 or 3 of Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1972, or the Broads Authority;\n“bridleway” and “footpath” have the meanings given by sections 329(1) and (2) of the 1980 Act;\n“local advertisement” means the publication in a local newspaper circulating in the area of any notice in accordance with Schedule 6 to the 1980 Act or Schedule 14 to the 1990 Act (as the case may be);\n“operator” and “railway” have the same meanings as in sections 118A and 119A of the 1980 Act;\n“public path” means a bridleway or footpath;\n“public path order” means an order made under—\n(a) section 26, 118, 118A, 119 or 119A of the 1980 Act; or\n(b) section 257 or 261(2) of the 1990 Act;\n“unopposed order” means a public path order where no representations or objections have been duly made, or if any were so made they have been withdrawn.\n(2) These Regulations apply in relation to any request falling within regulation 3(1) of these Regulations made on or after the date when the Regulations come into force.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 15.3.1993, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Sections 118A and 119A were inserted by section 47 of, and paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 2 to, the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1978",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Authorities (Charges for Overseas Assistance and Public Path Orders) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/407/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:04:14.552803+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."
}