Regulation 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

The title of these Regulations is the Public Rights of Way (Registers) (Wales) Regulations 2006 and they come into force on 15 January 2006.

In these Regulations—

• “authority” (“awdurdod”) means, in relation to—

  1. (a)

     a section 31A register, the appropriate council;

  2. (b)

     a section 53B register, the surveying authority; and

  3. (c)

     a section 121B register, the council;

• “register” (“cofrestr”) means, as the case may be, a section 31A register, a section 53B register and a section 121B register;

• “section 31A register” (“cofrestr adran 31A”) means the register an authority is required to keep under section 31A of the 1980 Act (register of maps, statements and declarations);

• “section 53B register” (“cofrestr adran 53B”) means the register an authority is required to keep under section 53B of the 1981 Act (register of applications under section 53); and

• “section 121B register” (“cofrestr adran 121B”) means the register an authority is required to keep under section 121B of the 1980 Act (register of applications).

In these Regulations, a reference to a regulation is a reference to a regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.