Part 10A, Section 204V: Appeals Schedule 16: Locally-led development corporations: minor and consequential amendments Consequential amendments to Section 134 (urban development area) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 Effect
Paragraph 2(1) to (4) and (6) to (10) changes the references to the Secretary of State to ‘appropriate national authority’ and makes amendments consequential to this, including where regulations are to be made either by the Houses of Parliament, Scottish Parliament, or Senedd Cymru. This is in recognition that these functions are performed by, or powers fall to, the Secretary of State in England, Scottish Ministers in Scotland, and Welsh Ministers in Wales. Legislative competence lies with the Houses of Parliament in England, the Scottish Parliament, and Senedd Cymru.
	Paragraph 2(5) inserts new subsection (3C) into section 134 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980. The effect of the change is that the Secretary of State must have consent from the oversight authority before making any changes to exclude areas of land from the urban development area of a Locally-led Urban Development Corporation.
	Paragraph 2(11) inserts subsection (6) into section 134 of the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 and providing for the procedure to for designating a locally-led urban development area by order. Paragraph 2(11) also inserts new subsection (7) which defines ‘appropriate national authority’ as the Secretary of State in England, Scottish Ministers in Scotland, and Welsh Ministers in Wales in amended section 134 of the Local Government, Planning, and Land Act 1980.