SCHEDULE 17 Functions with Respect to National Parks and the Countryside
Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Planning Boards and National Park Committees
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(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.