Consultation requirementsE+W+S
1(1)A local authority in carrying out its functions in relation to—
(a)any air quality review,
(b)any assessment under section 82 or 84 of this Act, or
(c)the preparation of an action plan or any revision of an action plan,
shall consult such other persons as fall within sub-paragraph (2) below.
(2)Those persons are—
(a)the Secretary of State;
(b)the appropriate new Agency;
(c)in England and Wales, the highway authority for any highway in the area to which the review or, as the case may be, the action plan or revision relates;
(d)every local authority whose area is contiguous to the authority’s area;
(e)any county council in England whose area consists of or includes the whole or any part of the authority’s area;
(f)any National Park authority for a National Park whose area consists of or includes the whole or any part of the authority’s area;
(g)such public authorities exercising functions in, or in the vicinity of, the authority’s area as the authority may consider appropriate;
(h)such bodies appearing to the authority to be representative of persons with business interests in the area to which the review or action plan in question relates as the authority may consider appropriate;
(j)such other bodies or persons as the authority considers appropriate.
[F1(2A)A local authority specified in sub-paragraph (2B) below shall in carrying out the functions falling within sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (c) above also consult the Mayor of London.
F1(2B)The local authorities mentioned in sub-paragraph (2A) above are—
(a)any local authority in Greater London,
(b)any local authority whose area is contiguous to the area of Greater London.]
(3) In this paragraph “National Park authority”, F2. . ., means a National Park authority established under section 63 of this Act which has become the local planning authority for the National Park in question.
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Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 11 para. 1(2A)(2B) inserted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 369 (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 3
F2Words in Sch. 11 para. 1(3) repealed (E.W.) (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(3), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2, Sch.
F3Sch. 11 para. 1(4) repealed (E.W.) (1.4.1997) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(3), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2560, art. 2, Sch.