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This Act defines the DutyOfCare that the occupier of premises owes to people who are not covered by the provisions of the OccupiersLiabilityAct1957. In the main, this means trespassors (see trespass), but it also protects persons exercising a private (but not public) right of way -- a category excluded from the 1957 Act.
The 1984 Act, unsurprisingly, offers less protection that the 1957 Act. A duty of care only arises where
It is this last provision that has caused most difficulty in the courts. See OccupiersLiabilityToTrespassers for more details.
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