The Planning Inspectorate- Wales

Definitive Map Orders

Annex A - Some publications on rights of way orders

Acts of Parliament and Regulations

1 The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Sections 53 and 54 cover modification and reclassification orders. Schedule 15 sets out the procedures for making and confirming these orders.

2 The Wildlife and Countryside (Definitive Maps and Statements) Regulations 1993 (Statutory Instrument 1993 Number 12)

These give the form that orders made under Section 53 or 54 should be in, and the form for the notices advertising the order. Please also see 3 below.

3 The Rail Crossing Extinguishment and Diversion Orders, the Public Path Orders and the Definitive Maps and Statements (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (Statutory Instrument 1995 Number 451)

These include amendments to the Wildlife and Countryside (Definitive Maps and Statements) Regulations 1993.

Circulars

Welsh Office Circular 5/93, Public Rights of Way

This gives advice on many issues connected with recording, maintaining, protecting and changing the rights of way network.

1 Welsh Office Circular 23/93, Awards of costs incurred in planning and other (including compulsory purchase order) proceedings

This gives advice on awarding inquiry costs, including cases involving rights of way orders.

2 Welsh Office letter dated 31 May 1995 (ref CC2-3-12), Amendment Regulations and Advice on Public Path Orders

This describes the conditions contained in The Rail Crossing Extinguishment and Diversion Orders, the Public Path Orders and the Definitive Maps and Statements (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (Statutory Instrument 1995/451). It also gives guidance on how the Highways Act 1980 can be used to close a public path and create or divert another path which can be used as an alternative.