Countryside. A bill [as amended by Standing Committee A] to enlarge the functions of the commission established under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, to confer new powers on local authorities and other bodies for the benefit of those resorting to the countryside and to make other provision for the matters dealt with in the act of 1949 and generally as respects the countryside, and to amend the law about trees and woodlands and footpaths and bridleways [electronic resource].