SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17 Functions with Respect to National Parks and the Countryside

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Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)

Planning Boards and National Park Committees

F23A

1

Where a National Park is wholly comprised in one planning area in Wales, the Secretary of State may by order constitute a special planning board to discharge, as respects the area of the Park, the functions to which this Part of this Schedule applies.

2

Any enactment relating to joint planning boards constituted by an order under section 2 of the M1Town and Country Planning Act 1990 shall apply in relation to a special planning board constituted under this paragraph as it applies in relation to a joint planning board constituted under subsection (1B) of that section, but as if—

a

the area of the National Park were a united district; and

b

any reference (however expressed) to the constituent councils of the joint board (or which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the council of the principal area in question.