Part IX Functions
The environment
C1184 National Park and countryside functions.
F11
The functions conferred on a local planning authority by or under the National Parks and Access to the M1Countryside Act 1949 and the M2Countryside Act 1968 shall—
a
as respects England elsewhere than in the metropolitan counties, Greater London and the Isles of Scilly, be exercisable in accordance with the following provisions of this section; and
b
as respects Wales, be exercisable in accordance with F2subsections (7) and (8) below.
2
The following of the said functions, that is to say those conferred by—
a
Part II and sections 61, 62, 63, 78, 90(5), 92 (so far as relating to parking places in a National Park), 99(3) and 101(3) of the said Act of 1949; and
b
sections 12(5), 13 and 14 of the said Act of 1968;
shall, subject to subsection (3) below F3. . ., be functions of the county planning authority.
3
The functions of a local planning authority under F4section 9 of the said Act of 1949 shall as respects any area outside a National Park be exercisable both by county planning authorities and district planning authorities.
4
All other functions conferred by or under any other provision of the said Acts of 1949 and 1968 on a local planning authority shall, F5. . ., be exercisable both by county planning authorities and district planning authorities.
5
References in the said Acts of 1949 and 1968 to a local planning authority shall be construed accordingly.
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7
Sections 27 to 38 of the said Act of 1949 and Parts II to IV of Schedule 3 to the said Act of 1968 (survey of public paths, etc.) shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in Part II of the said Schedule 17 and those Acts shall have effect subject to the further modifications specified in Part III of that Schedule.
8
In that Schedule “the 1949 Act” and “the 1968 Act” mean the said Acts of 1949 and 1968 respectively.