{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2015/4",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2015",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Joint planning boards: functions relating to surveys and local development plans",
  "text": "(1) PCPA 2004 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 78 (interpretation of Part 6), for subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) But—\n(a) a National Park authority is the local planning authority for the whole of its area;\n(b) a joint planning board is the local planning authority for the whole of its united district (and references to the area of a local planning authority are, in relation to such a board, to be construed as references to its united district).”\n(3) In section 62 (local development plan), in subsection (7) (relevant local well-being plan), after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(c) in the case of an authority which is a joint planning board, the public services board for an area that includes any part of that authority's united district.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 partly in force; s. 15 in force for specified purposes at 6.9.2015, see s. 58(2)(b)(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 15(1)(2) in force at 16.3.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1987, art. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 15(3) in force at 1.4.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/1987, art. 5(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2015/4/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:20.183571+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}