SCHEDULE 17 Savings and Transitional Provisions
Part II Transitional Provisions
Planning
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(1)
This paragraph applies where an old authority have, by virtue of paragraph 5 of Schedule 17 to the 1972 Act, made arrangements which, immediately before 1st April 1996, are in force for the discharge of any of their functions through a National Park Committee.
(2)
The abolition of the old authority shall not affect the validity of anything done by the National Park Committee before the abolition of the authority.
(3)
Anything which, on 1st April 1996, is in the process of being done by or in relation to an old authority in the exercise of, or in connection with, any functions discharged through a National Park Committee may be continued by or in relation to the successor authority.
(4)
For the purposes of this paragraph “successor authority” means—
(a)
where a joint or special planning board is established for the area of the National Park in question, that board; and
(b)
in any other case, the local planning authority by whom the functions become exercisable (acting through a National Park Committee).