Town and Country Planning Act 1971

Section 2.

SCHEDULE 2 Planning Committees and Joint Advisory Committees

PART I Planning Committees

1 A local planning authority may establish such planning committees as they think it expedient to establish for the efficient discharge of their functions as a local planning authority, and may authorise any such committee to exercise on their behalf any of those functions, except the power to borrow money or to levy or issue a precept for a rate.

2 A planning committee of a local planning authority may, subject to any restrictions imposed by the local planning authority—

(a) appoint such sub-committees constituted in such manner as the committee may determine ; and

(b) authorise any such sub-committee to exercise any of the functions of the committee on their behalf.

3 A majority of every planning committee of a local planning authority shall be members of the authority, and a majority of every sub-committee of any such committee shall be members either of the local planning authority or of the councils of county districts comprised in the area of that authority.

4 Any power conferred by this Part of this Schedule to establish or appoint committees or sub-committees, or to authorise such committees or sub-committees to exercise any functions, shall include power to dissolve or alter the constitution of such committees or sub-committees, and to revoke or vary any such authorisation.

PART II Joint Advisory Committees

5 Any two or more local planning authorities may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, concur in establishing a joint advisory committee for the purpose of advising those authorities as to the preparation of structure plans and local plans and generally as to the planning of development in their areas ; and any such committee shall be constituted in such manner as may be determined by the authorities by whom it was established :

Provided that a majority of the members of any such committee shall be members of one or other of those authorities.

6 If it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient that a joint advisory committee of any two or more local planning authorities should be established in accordance with paragraph 5 of this Schedule, he may, after consultation with those authorities, by order establish such a committee, and any such order may—

(a) provide for the reference to the committee of such matters as may be specified in the order ;

(b) make such incidental and consequential provisions (including provision for the payment of expenses of the committee and the transfer and compensation of officers) as appear to the Secretary of State to be expedient.

7 Any power conferred by this Part of this Schedule to establish committees or to authorise such committees to exercise any functions shall include power to dissolve or alter the constitution of such committees, and to revoke or vary any such authorisation.

8 The provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall be in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of the [1933 c. 51.] Local Government Act 1933 with respect to the appointment by local authorities of joint committees.