OpenLegislation

Part V Access to Open CountryC1

England and Wales

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

  1. 59Provision for public access to open country.
  2. 60Rights of public where access agreement, order in force.
  3. 61. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  4. 62. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  5. 63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  6. 64Access agreements.
  7. 65Access orders.
  8. 66Effect of access agreement or order on rights and liabilities of owners.
  9. 67Provision of means of access.
  10. 68Power of local planning authority to enforce access.
  11. 69Suspension of public access to avoid exceptional risk of fire.
  12. 70Compensation for access orders.
  13. 71Compensation to be assessed with regard to effect of first five years of access.
  14. 72Claims for compensation and interest.
  15. 73Payments on account in cases of special hardship.
  16. 74Application to waterways in National Parks.
  17. 75Exercise of powers under s. 13 as respects open country and waterways comprised in access orders.
  18. 76Acquisition by local authorities of land for public access.
  19. 77Acquisition by Ministers of land for public access.
  20. 78Maps of land subject to public access.
  21. 79. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  22. 80Provisions as to danger areas.
  23. 81Boundary notices.
  24. 82Power of local planning authority to contribute to work carried out by other persons.
  25. 83Repeal of 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 30.

Annotations

Modifications

C1

Pt. V restricted and (in respect of ss. 64-82) amended by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33, SIF 81:1), s. 60(5); restricted by Countryside Act 1968 (c. 41, SIF 46:1), s. 16(7), amended ibid., s. 16(4)

Pt. V restricted (prosp.) by 2000 c. 37, ss. 46(2), 103(3) (with s. 43)