15Joint planning boards: functions relating to surveys and local development plans
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(1)PCPA 2004 is amended as follows.
(2)In section 78 (interpretation of Part 6), for subsection (3) substitute—
“(3)But—
(a)a National Park authority is the local planning authority for the whole of its area;
(b)a joint planning board is the local planning authority for the whole of its united district (and references to the area of a local planning authority are, in relation to such a board, to be construed as references to its united district).”
(3)In section 62 (local development plan), in subsection (7) (relevant local well-being plan), after paragraph (b) insert—
“(c)in the case of an authority which is a joint planning board, the public services board for an area that includes any part of that authority’s united district.”