147 Power to authorise erection of stiles etc on footpath or bridleway
Highways Act 1980 (1980 c 66) | Legislation

147  Power to authorise erection of stiles etc on footpath or bridleway

(1)     The following provisions of this section apply where the owner, lessee or occupier of agricultural land, or of land which is being brought into use for agriculture, represents to a competent authority, as respects a footpath or bridleway that crosses the land, that for securing that the use, or any particular use, of the land for agriculture shall be efficiently carried on, it is expedient that stiles, gates or other works for preventing the ingress or egress of animals should be erected on the path or way.

For the purposes of this section [as it applies in relation to footpaths or bridleways,] the following are competent authorities—

(a)     in the case of a footpath or bridleway which is for the time being maintained by a [non-metropolitan] district council by virtue of section 42 or 50 above, that council and also the highway authority, and

(b)

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