[34 Prohibition of driving mechanically propelled vehicles elsewhere than on roads]
Road Traffic Act 1988 (1988 c 52) | Legislation

[34  Prohibition of driving mechanically propelled vehicles elsewhere than on roads]

[(1)     Subject to the provisions of this section, if without lawful authority a person drives a mechanically propelled vehicle—

(a)     on to or upon any common land, moorland or land of any other description, not being land forming part of a road, or

(b)     on any road being a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway,

he is guilty of an offence.

(2)     For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above, a way shown in a definitive map and statement as a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway is, without prejudice to section 56(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, to be taken to be a way of the kind shown, unless . . . the contrary is proved.

[(2A)     It is not an offence under this section for a person with an interest in land,

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