Amendments proposed to the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill - continued House of Commons

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Mr Damian Green
Mr James Paice
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

294

Clause     41,     page     23,     line     37,     leave out '2(5) or'.

   

Mr Damian Green
Mr James Paice
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

293

Page     23,     line     1,     leave out Clause 41.


   

Mr Michael Meacher

493

Clause     43,     page     24,     line     16,     leave out from first 'and' to 'of' in line 17 and insert 'sections 44 to 48, "definitive map and statement" has the same meaning as in Part III'.


   

Mr Michael Meacher

494

Clause     44,     page     24,     line     27,     at end insert—

    '; and subsection (1) applies accordingly to any way as so diverted, widened or extended.'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

495

Clause     44,     page     24,     line     28,     leave out from 'apply' to end of line 30 and insert 'to any way, or part of a way, over which immediately before the commencement of section 43 there was no public right of way.'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

496

Clause     44,     page     25,     line     2,     leave out from 'include' to second 'of' in line 3 and insert 'a vehicle falling within paragraph (c) of section 189(1)'.


   

Mr Michael Meacher

497

Clause     45,     page     25,     line     21,     leave out from beginning to 'a' and insert 'Nothing in subsections (1) and (2) or in section 44(1) obliges'.


   

Mr Michael Meacher

498

Schedule     5,     page     44,     line     28,     at end insert—

    '( ) In subsection (3)(a)(iii), after "public path" there is inserted "or a restricted byway".'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

499

Schedule     5,     page     44,     leave out lines 30 to 37 and insert—

            ' "(4A) Subsection (4B) applies to evidence which, when considered with all other relevant evidence available to the surveying authority, shows as respects a way shown in a definitive map and statement as a restricted byway—

            (a) that before the commencement of section 43 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 the public had a right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic over that way, and

            (b) that the public continue to have that right of way over it.

            (4B) For the purposes of subsection (3)(c)(ii), such evidence is evidence which, when so considered, shows that the way concerned ought to be shown in the definitive map and statement as a byway open to all traffic."

    ( ) After subsection (5) there is inserted—

            "(5A) Evidence to which subsection (4B) applies on the commencement of section 43 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 shall for the purposes of subsection (5) and any application made under it be treated as not having been discovered by the surveying authority before the commencement of that section."'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

500

Schedule     5,     page     48,     line     31,     leave out from 'for' to second 'byway' in line 32 and insert 'the words from "any public path" to the end there is substituted "any highway along which the route passes and which is a public path, a restricted byway or a way shown in a definitive map and statement as a restricted byway or'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

501

Schedule     5,     page     48,     line     34,     leave out from 'for' to end of line 36 and insert 'the words from "existing public paths" to "route passes" there is substituted "existing highways falling within paragraph (a) of that subsection".'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

502

Schedule     5,     page     49,     line     11,     leave out 'or bridleway' and insert ', bridleway or byway open to all traffic'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

503

Schedule     5,     page     49,     line     12,     leave out from '1981,' to 'is' in line 13.


   

Mr Michael Meacher

504

Clause     48,     page     26,     line     10,     leave out 'make' and insert—

      '(a) provide for any relevant provision applying to highways, or to highways of a particular description, not to apply, or to apply with or without modification, to restricted byways or to ways shown in a definitive map and statement as restricted byways, and

      (b) without prejudice to paragraph (a), make in any relevant provision'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

505

Clause     48,     page     26,     line     12,     leave out from '46' to second 'in' in line 13 and insert 'or provision made by virtue of that paragraph.

    ( ) In subsection (1) "relevant provision" means a provision contained—

          (a)''.


   

Mr Michael Meacher

506

Clause     53,     page     28,     line     27,     after 'as' insert 'restricted byways or'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

507

Clause     53,     page     28,     line     29,     leave out 'reference to restricted byways' and insert 'references to restricted byways and to ways shown in a definitive map and statement as restricted byways'.


   

Mr Michael Meacher

508

Clause     56,     page     30,     line     10,     after 'as' insert 'a restricted byway or'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

509

Clause     56,     page     31,     line     8,     leave out 'reference to a restricted byway' and insert 'references to a restricted byway and to a way shown in a definitive map and statement as a restricted byway'.


   

Mrs Helen Brinton

423

Schedule     9,     page     66,     line     15,     at end insert 'formulating or considering any plans or projects and in'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

422

Schedule     9,     page     66,     line     22,     at end insert—

    '(2A) Subsection (1) applies even if the formulation or consideration of plans or projects or the exercise of its functions would not take place on land forming part of a site of special scientific interest but affects such land.'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

424

Schedule     9,     page     66,     line     22,     at end insert—

    '(2A) If in exercising or performing any of its functions it appears that there is a conflict between the duty set out in subsection (1) and any duty conferred by another Act, except in cases of human health and safety, a section 28E authority shall give greater weight to the duty set out in subsection (1).'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

425

Schedule     9,     page     66,     line     22,     at end insert—

    '(2B) Any power of a section 28E authority conferred by any Act may be exercised in pursuance of subsection 28E(1).

    (2C) Powers conferred by subsection (2B) shall be exercised—

      (a) in the case of England, only after consultation with the Nature Conservancy Council for England;

      (b) in the case of Wales, only after consultation with the Countryside Council for Wales.'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

413

Schedule     9,     page     66,     line     39,     after 'out', insert 'or causing or permitting to be carried out'.

   

Mr David Heath

485

Schedule     9,     page     66,     line     40,     leave out 'operations likely to' and insert 'any operation specified in the notification or which may'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

414

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     2,     after 'out', insert 'or cause or permit to be carried out'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

415

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     4,     after 'out', insert 'or cause or permit to be carried out'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

416

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     7,     after 'out', insert 'or causing or permitting them to be carried out'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

419

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     15,     leave out '(if at all)'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

420

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     16,     after 'Council', insert '(including what less damaging alternatives have been considered and the reasons why the importance of the operation overrides the special interest of that part of the site affected)'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

417

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     19,     after 'out', insert 'or cause or permit to be carried out'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

421

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     24,     at end insert—

    '(7) Where the Council does not assent to the proposed operation or assents to the proposed operation but with conditions, any dispute between the Council and a statutory undertaker shall be determined by a person appointed for the purpose—

      (a) by agreement between the Council and the section 28E authority; or

      (b) failing such an agreement, by the Secretary of State, and on any such reference the person so appointed may confirm the decision of the Council or give the section 28E authority such directions as he think appropriate.'.

   

Mrs Helen Brinton

418

Schedule     9,     page     67,     line     25,     leave out from beginning to end of line 3 on page 68.

 
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