Schedule 9 | Miscellaneous Statutory Functions Of National Park Authorities | Environment Act 1995 C25

SCHEDULE 9 Miscellaneous Statutory Functions of National Park Authorities

Environment Act 1995 (1995 c 25) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 9 Miscellaneous Statutory Functions of National Park Authorities

Section 70 Common land etc

(1) The enactments specified in sub-paragraph (2) below shall have effect in relation to any registered common which—

(a) is within any National Park for which a National Park authority is the local planning authority, and

(b) is not owned by, or vested in, any other body which is a local authority,

as if the National Park authority were a local authority for the purposes of those enactments and as if the relevant Park were that authority's area.

(2) The enactments mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above are—

(a) section 1 of the Commons Act 1899 (scheme for regulation);

(b) . . .

(c) section 23 of and Schedule 2 to the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (power of district council to prohibit caravans on commons) [or section 57 of and Schedule 3 to the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 (power of local authority in Wales to prohibit caravans on commons)]; and

(d) [section 45 of the Commons Act 2006] (protection of unclaimed common land).

(3) In the Commons Act 1899 references to the council by which a scheme is