{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/6",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Joint exercise of functions by planning authorities",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may direct two or more planning authorities to prepare a joint local development plan for their areas.\n(2) A direction under subsection (1) may not be given to a National Park authority.\n(3) If the Welsh Ministers give a direction, they must state their reasons for doing so.\n(4) The authorities to which the direction is given must comply with it.\n(5) Two or more planning authorities may, in the absence of a direction to any of them under subsection (1), agree to prepare a joint local development plan for their areas.\n(6) This Part applies in relation to a joint local development plan as it applies in relation to any other local development plan.\n(7) Anything that must be done by or in relation to a planning authority in connection with a local development plan must be done by or in relation to each of the authorities mentioned in subsection (1) or (5) in connection with a joint local development plan.\n(8) In this section and section 37, “joint local development plan” means a local development plan prepared jointly by two or more planning authorities.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 36 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/6/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:37.107863+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."
}