{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/section-319ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990/section-319ZA.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/8",
  "legislation_title": "Town and Country Planning Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-act-1990",
  "path": "section/319ZA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "319ZA",
  "heading": "Requirement for functions to be discharged by committee, sub-committee or officer",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations require a relevant local planning authority to make arrangements under section 101 of the 1972 Act for a relevant function to be discharged by a committee, sub-committee or officer of the authority.\n(2) The regulations may prescribe the terms of the arrangements (which may include exceptions) and any permitted variations in those terms.\n(3) Where arrangements required by the regulations are in force in relation to a relevant function, the function may only be exercised in accordance with the arrangements (and section 101(4) of the 1972 Act does not apply).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 319ZA-319ZD and cross-heading inserted (6.9.2015 for specified purposes, 5.5.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4), ss. 39(1), 58(2)(b)(4)(b); S.I. 2017/546, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 319ZA-319ZD applied (4.11.2024) by Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 3), ss. 168(1), 212(2) (with Sch. 14 paras. 1-3); S.I. 2024/860, art. 3(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/section/319ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:00.269643+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."
}