Local Government Act 1985

5 (1) Schedule 17 to the said Act of 1972 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 5 for the words “county or counties” there shall be substituted the words “planning areas”.

(3) In paragraph 8—

(a) for the words “new counties” there shall be substituted the words “planning areas”;

(b) for the words “those counties”, in both places, there shall be substituted the words “those areas”.

(4) In paragraph 12A(1) for the words “district councils whose districts” there shall be substituted the words “councils of non-metropolitan districts which”; and any person who immediately before the abolition date is a member of a board or committee by virtue of an appointment made under the said paragraph 12A by the council of a metropolitan district (whether alone or jointly) shall cease to be a member of that board or committee on that date.

(5) In paragraph 13(b) and (c) for the words “county council” there shall be substituted the words “county or metropolitan district council”.

(6) In paragraph 14—

(a) for the words “one county” and “the county” there shall be substituted respectively the words “one planning area” and “the area”;

(b) for the words “two or more counties” and “those counties” there shall be substituted respectively the words “two or more planning areas” and “those areas”;

(c) for the words (in paragraph (b)) “county council” there shall be substituted the words “county or metropolitan district council”.

(7) In paragraph 16 for the words “the county council” there shall be substituted the words “the council of the planning area”.

(8) After paragraph 21 there shall be inserted—

“21A In this Part of this Schedule “planning area” means a metropolitan district or a non-metropolitan county.”

(9) Paragraph 35 shall have effect in relation to any area—

(a) which is in a metropolitan district; and

(b) to which subsections (1) and (2) of section 61 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 do not apply at the abolition date by virtue of subsection (3) of that section, as if the reference to the county council were a reference to the council of that metropolitan district.