Prospective
(1)Any local authority or statutory undertaker may contribute towards costs incurred by a corporate joint committee, or by a planning authority, local highway authority or other local authority, in or in connection with the exercise of any of its functions under or by virtue of this Act (except Chapter 2 of Part 6).
(2)Any local authority may contribute towards costs incurred by a local highway authority in the construction or improvement of a road for the purpose of providing a public right of way as an alternative to a right of way extinguished by an order under section 297 or 300.
(3)Subsection (4) applies where compensation is payable by a planning authority, local highway authority or other local authority in consequence of anything done under or by virtue of this Act (except Chapter 2 of Part 6).
(4)The Welsh Ministers may—
(a)contribute towards the payment of the compensation, if the thing in consequence of which it is payable was done wholly or partly in the interests of a service that is provided by the Welsh Ministers, or
(b)direct another local authority to contribute an amount that the Welsh Ministers consider reasonable, having regard to any benefit accruing to that other authority as a result of the thing being done.
(5)Subsection (6) applies where—
(a)compensation is payable by a planning authority or other local authority in consequence of any decision or order made under or by virtue of Parts 3 to 9 (except Chapter 2 of Part 6), and
(b)the decision or order was made wholly or partly in the interests of a service—
(i)that is provided by a Minister of the Crown or a department of the government of the United Kingdom, and
(ii)the cost of which is met out of money provided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
(6)The Minister or department may, with the consent of the Treasury, contribute towards the payment of the compensation.
(7)The powers conferred on local authorities by this section do not limit the powers conferred by sections 274 and 275 of the Highways Act (contributions towards costs of highway authorities and costs relating to public paths).
(8)See also section 272 of that Act for provision about the making of advances by the Welsh Ministers for highway purposes.
Commencement Information
I1S. 395 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)