off roading in Scotland

[SpyInTheCamp]

So was that you I saw at Fountainhall this morning about 8:45ish? I was on the manderin 1150 overtaking and heading north

I've just re-read this (and my response) and realise that I misread Fountainhall as Fountainbridge

So the answer should have been 'yes' as that's where I usually join the A7.

Do you also wear a Roof lid (or something similar)? If so, you do appear to enjoy 'making progress'.

Kai

 

[Boon]

Prohibition Of Driving Motor Vehicles Elsewhere Than On Roads
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Section, if without lawful authority a person drives a motor 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 or bridleway,

he is guilty of an offence.

(2) It is not an offence under this Section to drive a motor vehicle on any land within fifteen yards of a road, being a road on which a motor vehicle may lawfully be driven, for the purpose only of parking the vehicle on that land.

(3) A person shall not be convicted of an offence under this Section with respect to a vehicle if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that it was driven in contravention of this Section for the purpose of saving life or extinguishing fire or meeting any other like emergency.

(4) It is hereby declared that nothing in this Section prejudices the operation of

(a) Section 193 of the Law of Property Act, 1925 (rights of the public over commons and waste lands), or

(b) any byelaws applying to any land,

or affects the law of trespass to land or any right or remedy to which a person may by law be entitled in respect of any such trespass or in particular confers a right to park a vehicle on any land. (Section 34).

For private land there is also a newish law that prohibits being on someone elses land/refusing to leave/stopping them from carrying out thier lawful buisiness


For property.......there is a statutary law in scotland that prohibits anyone from being in or on the curtelidge of someonelses house.........its one of the few laws that confer a legal right of arrest to the householder...and it carries a power of arrest for police officers........its also fairly unique in that the onus of proof is on the accused to prove he wasnt there to commit theft..............not on the police/prosecution to prove he was..........this is most likely why we dont get squatters..........

 

[StooL]

I've just re-read this (and my response) and realise that I misread Fountainhall as Fountainbridge

So the answer should have been 'yes' as that's where I usually join the A7.

Do you also wear a Roof lid (or something similar)? If so, you do appear to enjoy 'making progress'.

Kai

Wasn't me m'lud. I may or may not have/had a Roof lid and i may or may not have changed it recently to another type that seems to be popular with GSers. Who are you spying for Kai?