{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-miscellaneous-provision-regulations-1996/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-miscellaneous-provision-regulations-1996/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/330",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-miscellaneous-provision-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Definitive maps and statements",
  "text": "Where, on the reorganisation date, the functions of a surveying authority under Part III of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (public rights of way) in relation to any area become functions of another local authority—\n(a) that authority shall be deemed to have prepared that part of any definitive map and statement (within the meaning of that Part) which relates to that area on that date;\n(b) that part shall be deemed to be the definitive map and statement for that area; and accordingly\n(c) that authority may resolve that its own name be included in the title of that definitive map and statement, whether or not in substitution for the name of any other authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/330/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:25.740333+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."
}