Legal Aspects of
Access Underground
A guide to the legal
rights and obligations of people who explore caves, potholes and
disused mines, and of those people who control access to them.
By P.T.Mellors
Illustrations by C.Lane
ISBN 0 900265 08 6
Contents
Introduction
Rights of ownership and access
- Ownership of caves
- Entrances: surface and
sub-strata; Changing conceptions of caves
- Access to land
- Rights of way; Trespass; Closure
Orders
- Access to caves
- By right of ownership; By owner's
consent; By custom; By formal agreement or license;
Breach of access agreements
- Access to mines
- Working mines; Museum mines;
Disused mines
Liability
- Owners' and occupiers'
liabilities
- Duty of care; Negligence
liability; Exclusion of liability; Liability for disused
mines; Transfer of liability; Business liability
- Cavers' liabilities
- Limited liability; Public
liability; Wilful damage; Obligations under access
agreements; Leader's liability; Working underground;
Caving codes; Fixed aids; "Adopt-a-cave"
schemes; Indemnity and insurance
Conservation and access
- Sites of Special Scientific
Interest
- Notification; Potentially
damaging operations
- National Natures Reserves
- Management agreements; Warden's
powers
- Protection of bats, etc.
- Ancient monuments
Additional Information
- Structure of the National Caving
Association
- List of useful addresses
- Tables of statutes
- Codes of practice
Cost £1.30 per copy including
postage, cheques payable to National Caving Association. Send orders to National Caving Association Conservation
Officer, 3 The Acorns, Oakhill, Bath, BA3 5BT.
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