Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Access to the Countryside (Correction of Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 22nd August 2005.

Amendment

2.The Access to the Countryside (Correction of Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) Regulations 2003( 3 ) are amended as follows—

(a) for regulations 4 (correction of conclusive maps) and 5 (time limits for correction of provisional and conclusive maps) there is substituted—

“ Correction of conclusive maps

4. —(1) Where a conclusive map has been issued under section 9(2) or issued in compliance with a direction under section 9(4), but the map does not incorporate, or accurately incorporate, a modification which—

(a) should have been incorporated in the provisional map issued under section 5(e), and

(b) has not been incorporated, or accurately incorporated, in the provisional map issued under section 5(e) by correcting that map under regulation 3(a),

the Agency may correct the conclusive map for the purpose of ensuring the modification is incorporated, or accurately incorporated, in so far as the correction consists of the omission of land from the map.

(2) Where a provisional map has been approved with modifications under section 6(4)(a), but any such modification is not incorporated, or accurately incorporated, in the conclusive map issued under section 9(2) or issued in compliance with a direction under section 9(4), the Agency may correct the conclusive map for the purpose of ensuring the modification is incorporated or accurately incorporated.

Time limits for correction of provisional maps

5. The Agency may not correct a provisional map—

(a) under regulation 3(a) after the expiry of a period of three months beginning with the date of issue of the map to which the correction relates in so far as the correction consists of the showing of additional land on the map, or

(b) under regulation 3(b) after the expiry of a period of three months beginning with the date of issue of the map to which the correction relates. ” ; and

(b) in regulation 7 (informing specified persons of the correction of maps)—

(i) in paragraph (1), after “regulation 3” there is inserted “or a conclusive map under regulation 4(1)”, and

(ii) in paragraph (2), after “regulation 4” there is inserted “(2)”.