# Town and Country Planning Act 1971, Paragraph 1


A local planning authority may establish such planning committees as they think it expedient to establish for the efficient discharge of their functions as a local planning authority, and may authorise any such committee to exercise on their behalf any of those functions, except the power to borrow money or to levy or issue a precept for a rate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/78/schedule/2/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1971/schedule-2/paragraph-1
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