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New Clause 24
Overhanging vegetation obstructing horse-riders.
'. In section 154 of the 1980 Act (cutting or felling etc. trees etc. that overhang or are a danger to roads or footpaths) in subsection (1) after "public lamp," there is inserted "or overhangs a highway so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of horse-riders,".'.--[Mr. Meacher.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
New Clause 25
Extinguishment of unrecorded rights of way
'.--(1) Subsection (2) applies to a highway if--
(a) it was on 1st January 1949 a footpath or a bridleway, is on the cut-off date (in either case) a footpath or a bridleway, and between those dates has not been a highway of any other description,
(b) it is not on the cut-off date shown in a definitive map and statement as a highway of any description, and
(c) it is not on the cut-off date an excepted highway, as defined by section (Excepted highways or rights of way)(1).
(2) All rights of way over a highway to which this subsection applies shall be extinguished immediately after the cut-off date.
(3) Where a public right of way created before 1949--
(a) falls within subsection (4) on the cut-off date, and
(b) is not on that date an excepted right of way, as defined by section (Excepted highways or rights of way)(5),
that right of way shall be extinguished immediately after the cut-off date.
(4) A public right of way falls within this subsection if it is--
(a) a public right of way on horseback, leading a horse or for vehicles over the whole or part of so much of a way as is shown in a definitive map and statement as a footpath;
(b) a right for the public to drive animals of any description along the whole or part of so much of a way as is shown in a definitive map and statement as a footpath;
(c) a public right of way for vehicles over the whole or part of so much of a way as is shown in a definitive map and statement as a bridleway; or
(d) a public right of way for mechanically propelled vehicles over the whole or part of so much of a way as is shown in a definitive map and statement as a restricted byway.
(5) Where by virtue of subsection (3) a highway ceases to be a bridleway, the right of way created over it by section 30 of the Countryside Act 1968 (riding of pedal cycles on bridleways) is also extinguished.
(6) In determining for the purposes of subsection (1) whether a highway or any part of it was at any time a footpath or a bridleway, any diversion, widening or extension of the highway after that time (and not later than the cut-off date) is to be treated as having occurred before that time.
(7) In determining for the purposes of subsection (3) whether a public right of way over a highway or over any part of it was created before 1st January 1949, any diversion, widening or extension of the highway on or after that date (and not later than the cut-off date) is to be treated as having occurred before 1st January 1949.
(8) Where a way shown on the cut-off date in a definitive map and statement has at any time been diverted, widened or extended, it is to be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) to (5) as shown as so diverted, widened or extended, whether or not it is so shown.
(9) In this section--
"cut-off date" has the meaning given in section (Cut-off date for extinguishment etc.), and
"mechanically propelled vehicle" does not include a vehicle falling within paragraph (c) of section 189(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
(10) In this section and section (Excepted highways or rights of way) expressions used in Part III of the 1981 Act have the same meaning as in that Part, except that "highway", "footpath" and "bridleway" mean the whole or part of a highway, footpath or bridleway (as the case may be) within the meaning of that Part.'.--[Mr. Meacher.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
New Clause 26
Excepted highways or rights of way
'.--(1) A footpath or bridleway is an excepted highway for the purposes of section (Extinguishment of unrecorded rights of way)(1) if--
(a) it is a footpath or bridleway which satisfies either of the conditions in subsections (2) and (3),
(b) it is, or is part of, a footpath or bridleway any part of which is in an area which, immediately before 1st April 1965, formed part of the administrative county of London,
(c) it is a footpath or bridleway--
(i) at the side of (whether or not contiguous with) a carriageway not comprised in the same highway, or
(ii) between two carriageways comprised in the same highway (whether or not the footpath or bridleway is contiguous with either carriageway),
(e) it is a footpath or bridleway so specified.
(2) A footpath or bridleway ("the relevant highway") satisfies the first condition if--
(a) it became a footpath or bridleway on or after 1st January 1949 by the diversion, widening or extension of a footpath or, as the case may be, of a bridleway by virtue of an event within section 53(3)(a) of the 1981 Act,
(b) it became a footpath on or after 1st January 1949 by the stopping up of a bridleway,
(c) it was on 1st January 1949 a footpath and is on the cut-off date a bridleway,
(d) it is so much of a footpath or bridleway as on or after 1st January 1949 has been stopped up as respects part only of its width, or
(e) it is so much of a footpath or bridleway as passes over a bridge or through a tunnel,
and it communicates with a retained highway, either directly or by means of one or more footpaths or bridleways each of which forms part of the same highway as the relevant highway and each of which either falls within any of paragraphs (a) to (e) or satisfies the condition in subsection (3).
(3) A footpath or bridleway satisfies the second condition if--
(a) it extends from a footpath or bridleway ("the relevant highway") which--
(i) falls within any of paragraphs (a) to (e) of subsection (2), or
(ii) is an excluded highway by virtue of subsection (1)(c),
to, but not beyond, a retained highway, and
(b) it forms part of the same highway as the relevant highway.
(4) A retained highway for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) is any highway over which, otherwise than by virtue of subsection (1)(a), section (Extinguishment of unrecorded rights of way)(1) does not extinguish rights of way.
(5) A public right of way is an excepted right of way for the purposes of section (Extinguishment of unrecorded rights of way)(3) if--
(a) it subsists over the whole or part of a way over which there subsists on the cut-off date any public right of way created on or after 1st January 1949 otherwise than by virtue of section 30 of the Countryside Act 1968 (riding of pedal cycles on bridleways),
(b) it subsists over the whole or part of a way any part of which is in an area which, immediately before 1st April 1965, formed part of the administrative county of London,
(c) it is a public right of way of such other description as may be specified in regulations made (as respects England) by the Secretary of State or (as respects Wales) by the National Assembly for Wales, or
(d) it subsists over land so specified.
(6) Regulations under subsection (1)(d) or (e) or (5)(c) or (d) shall be made by statutory instrument, and a statutory instrument containing such regulations made by the Secretary of State shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.'.--[Mr. Meacher.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
New Clause 27
Bridleway rights over ways shown as bridleways
'.--(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the public shall, as from the day after the cut-off date, have a right of way on horseback or leading a horse over any way which--
(a) immediately before the commencement of this section is, and
(b) at the cut-off date continues to be,
a footpath which is shown in a definitive map and statement as a bridleway.
(2) Subsection (1) has effect subject to the operation of any enactment or instrument (whether coming into operation before or after the cut-off date), and to the effect of any event otherwise within section 53(3)(a) of the 1981 Act, whereby a highway is authorised to be stopped up, diverted, widened or extended; and subsection (1) applies accordingly to any way as so diverted, widened or extended.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to any way which is, or is part of, a footpath any part of which is in an area which, immediately before 1st April 1965, formed part of the administrative county of London.
(4) Where--
(a) by virtue of regulations under section (Cut-off date for extinguishment etc.)(2) an order under Part III of the 1981 Act takes effect after the cut-off date in relation to any footpath which, at the cut-off date was shown in a definitive map and statement as a bridleway,
(b) the regulations do not prevent subsection (1) from having effect after the cut-off date in relation to that footpath, and
(c) if the order had taken effect before that date, that footpath would not have fallen within subsection (1),
all rights over that way which exist only by virtue of subsection (1) shall be extinguished when the order takes effect.
(5) In this section--
(a) "cut-off date" has the meaning given in section (Cut-off date for extinguishment etc.), and
(b) expressions used in Part III of the 1981 Act have the same meaning as in that Part.'.--[Mr. Meacher.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
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