8. In article 17,—
(i)for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—
“(1) A district planning authority or, in a metropolitan county, a local planning authority, on receiving any application of which the council of a parish or community are entitled to be informed; shall as soon as practicable notify that council of the application. In the case of a district planning authority, that authority shall at the same time notify that council of the name of the local planning authority who will determine the application and shall notify that authority, if not the district planning authority, of the date on which they give such notification.”;
and
(ii)in paragraph (4), after the words “district planning authority” there shall be inserted the words “or, in a metropolitan county, the local planning authority”.