The Countryside Access (Means of Access, Appeals etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2005

Amendment of the Appeals Procedures Regulations

11.  In regulation 12(1) of the Appeals Procedures Regulations (Date and notification of hearing)—

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (c), delete “and”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (d), after “30(3)”, add “ or 38(1)”;

(c) at the end of sub-paragraph (d), delete the full stop and add—

“; and

(e) in the case of an appeal under section 38(1) of the Act—

(i) publish a notice of the hearing on a website maintained by it, and

(ii) if it considers it necessary in a particular case, require the respondent—

(aa) not less than 2 weeks before the date fixed for the hearing, to publish a notice of the hearing in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the land is situated, and

(bb) to affix a notice of the hearing firmly to the appeal land or to some object on or near that land in such manner as to be readily visible to and legible by members of the public; and the respondent must not remove the notice, or cause it to be removed, for such period before the hearing as the National Assembly may specify.”.