53 Power of magistrates' court to extinguish liability to maintain privately maintainable highway

53  Power of magistrates' court to extinguish liability to maintain privately maintainable highway

(1)     Where a person is liable by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription to maintain a highway, a magistrates' court may, on a complaint made either by that person or by the highway authority for the highway, make an order that the liability of that person to maintain the highway shall be extinguished, and on the extinguishment of that liability the highway, if it is not then a highway maintainable at the public expense, shall become for the purposes of this Act a highway

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