Part VI General, Financial and Supplementary
General powers and duties of Commission
85 General duty of F6Natural England and the F7Natural Resources Body for Wales to advise on questions relating to natural beauty.
Without prejudice to F1their respective duties relating to National Parks, it shall be the duty of F5Natural EnglandF2and the F7Natural Resources Body for Wales—
a
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b
in circumstances where it appears to the Minister and to F5Natural England, or, as the case may be, to the Minister and to the F7Natural Resources Body for Wales, desirable that their assistance should be generally available, to inquire into and report on such questions referred to them by any other body of persons or person;
c
to bring to the attention of the Minister or of local planning authorities the effect on the natural beauty of such areas or places as aforesaid of developments, or developments of any class, which appear to F5Natural EnglandF4(as respects England) or to the F7Natural Resources Body for Wales (as respects Wales) to be likely to be prejudicial thereto.