Textual Amendments
(1)The Secretary of State may require a strategic planning authority to reimburse the Secretary of State for any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in, or in connection with, exercising a function under section 12P or 12Q in relation to the authority’s spatial development strategy.
(2)Where the strategic planning authority is a strategic planning board, subsection (1) is to be read as giving power for the Secretary of State to require reimbursement of such expenditure from the constituent authorities of the board in such proportions as the Secretary of State considers just and reasonable.]