Paragraph 6 Registers and similar records required to be maintained

This paragraph applies to a National Park authority which does not, or will not, receive from an existing council all of the material comprised in any register maintained by that council so far as relevant to the National Park for which that National Park authority is established.

Upon giving reasonable notice, a National Park authority (acting through any authorised officer) shall at all reasonable times be entitled to access to such material as is referred to in sub-paragraph (1) which it has not received, or will not receive, whether in the possession of an existing council or of a county or county borough council established under the 1994 Act, to enable copies to be taken or information extracted.

In fulfilling its obligation to maintain a register, a National Park authority may incorporate with any material copied or extracted in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) a certificate that is a true copy of, or extract from, the register from which it has been copied or extracted and thereafter the certified copy or extract may be maintained as the register, or as the case may be, part of the register, that the National Park authority is required to maintain.

Nothing in this article shall affect the operation of any other provision in relation to any register which a National Park authority is required to maintain.

For the purposes of this paragraph “register" means any register, map, list or other document of whatever form and in whatever medium which a local authority is required to maintain.