The functions to which this Part of this Schedule applies are all functions of a county council F2 , county borough council or district council as local planning authority under the 1949 Act, the 1968 Act F3and the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 and any enactment amending any of those Acts.

In this Part of this Schedule “additional countryside functions” means functions other than those mentioned in paragraph 20 above, which, in the opinion of the council or councils concerned, or where the functions are ones which may be conferred by an order or determination of a Minister, of that Minister, relate to the countryside and are appropriate for reference to a board or committee concerned with matters relating to the countryside.

In this Part of this Schedule “planning area” means a metropolitan district or a non-metropolitan county F5but, in relation to Wales, means a county or county borough.