Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15K: Neighbourhood priorities statements Effect
Subsection (1) states that any qualifying body is able to make a "neighbourhood priorities statement" and sets out that it can cover a summary of the community’s needs and views in relation to certain prescribed ‘local matters’.
	Subsection (2) provides the Secretary of State with a power to set out, within the parameters specified in paragraphs (a) to (g), what ‘local matter’ are in regulations.
	Subsection (3) states that a qualifying body has the power to modify or revoke a statement covering their neighbourhood area.
	Subsection (4) specifies that a priorities statement will come into effect when it is published by the local planning authority and ceases to have effect when the authority publishes a notice stating that it has been revoked by the qualifying body.
	Subsection (5) specifies that any modification of a priorities statement by the qualifying body will come into effect when it is published by the local planning authority.
	Subsection (6) sets out that the Secretary of State may prescribe by regulations the requirements that a priorities statement must meet in order to be made or published.
	Subsection (7) specifies that regulations made under subsection (6) or section 15LE(2)(k), can state that requirements or procedures can be met or complied with, before a group is designated as a qualifying body.
	Subsection (8) sets out that regulations made under subsection (6) and section 15LE must (between them) require a qualifying body to publicise their neighbourhood priorities statement (or any proposed material modification to a statement); require the local planning authority to publish the neighbourhood priorities statement (or a modified version of that statement) where relevant statutory requirements have been met; and notify the public when a neighbourhood priorities statement has been revoked.
	Subsection (9) sets out that subsection (10) applies if a change to the boundary of a neighbourhood area results in a neighbourhood priorities statement relating to more than one neighbourhood area.
	Subsection (10) sets out that where a statement has been modified or revoked for one neighbourhood area, it still has effect in the other neighbourhood area(s) where it relates to.
	Subsection (11) sets out that regulations made under section 61G(11) of the principal Act (designation of areas as neighbourhood areas) (the TCPA 1990) can set out the consequences of the changes to neighbourhood areas on draft or published neighbourhood priorities statements (or modifications of statements).
	Subsections (12) and (13) set out that the types of authorities listed in subsection (13) are a ‘relevant planning authority’ for the purposes of a neighbourhood priorities statement, when some or all of the neighbourhood area to which the statement relates is within the area of that authority.
	Subsection (14) provides definitions to terms that are relevant to neighbourhood priorities statements.