Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020
Requirement to close and not enter certain public paths and land during the emergency period9.
(1)
Where paragraph (2) applies to a public path or access land in the area of a relevant authority, the relevant authority must, during the emergency period—
(a)
close the public path or access land, and
(b)
keep it closed until the earlier of—
(i)
the end of the emergency period, or
(ii)
the time when the authority considers that closure is no longer necessary to prevent, protect against, control or provide a public health response to the incidence or spread of infection in its area with the coronavirus.
(2)
This paragraph applies to the public paths and access land in its area a relevant authority considers—
(a)
to be liable to large numbers of people congregating or being in close proximity to each other, or
(b)
the use of which otherwise poses a high risk to the incidence or spread of infection in its area with the coronavirus.
(3)
(4)
No person may use a public path or access land closed by virtue of paragraph (1) unless authorised by the relevant authority.
(5)
The relevant authority must—
(a)
publish a list of public paths or access land closed in its area on a website;
(b)
erect and maintain notices in prominent places informing the public of the closure of a public path or access land.
(6)
For the purposes of this regulation references to a public path or access land include parts of a public path or access land.
(7)
In this regulation—
(a)
the “relevant authority” means—
(i)
a local authority,
(ii)
a National Park authority in Wales,
(iii)
Natural Resources Wales, or
(iv)
the National Trust;
(b)
“public path” means a footpath, bridleway, byway, restricted byway or cycle track and—