3. Section 5(1) of the Local Government Act 1986(1) does not apply to any expenditure incurred by a National Park authority in the financial year beginning on 1st April 1996 where that authority resolves as soon as reasonably practicable after the establishment date not to spend more than £3,000 on publicity, and that limit is not exceeded by that authority in the course of that year.
c.10. Paragraph 9 of Schedule 8 to the 1995 Act provides for a National Park authority to be treated as a local authority of the purposes of Part II (restrictions on publicity) of the 1986 Act.