Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

Amendment A272 concerns ferries. Clause 286(7) states: ""For the purposes of the coastal access duty, a person is to be regarded as enabled to make a journey by ferry even if that journey can be made at certain times, or during certain periods, only"." That refers back to the part which states that a long distance route is on foot unless it is by ferry. My amendment would change the words, ""at certain times, or during certain periods, only"," to, ""at certain times of the day only"." In other words, it would refer only to gaps within a given day and not gaps for a series of days or an extended period. This amendment is to probe what the Government think the position will be if the long distance route uses a ferry and there is a closure for several days or for extended periods, not because the ferry has broken down, but because that is the timetable. If the ferry does not run for three months in winter, what will happen and how will it be organised? I beg to move.