Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15IB: Joint local plan agreement or direction: withdrawal or modification Effect
Subsection (1) states that this section applies where a relevant authority withdraws from a joint local plan agreement, or if the Secretary of State withdraws or modifies a joint local plan direction so that it ceases to apply to at least one of the relevant authorities to which it was given.
	Subsection (2) states that any step taken in relation to the joint local plan must be treated as a step taken by the relevant authorities for corresponding local plans or corresponding joint local plans. This means that things done as part of the old joint local plan count as steps taken towards the local plan or joint local plan that replaces it.
	Subsection (3) provides that where the joint local plan has already been submitted for examination, the examination must be suspended. Subsection (4) provides the Secretary of State with a power to direct recommencement of the examination in relation to any corresponding local plan or corresponding joint local plan, and that any step previously taken in relation to the suspended examination has effect for the purposes of the resumed examination. This power is exercisable where a relevant authority has requested the Secretary of State to do so before the end of a period of time, to be prescribed in regulations.
	Subsection (5) enables the Secretary of State to define in regulations what is meant by a "corresponding local plan" or a "corresponding joint local plan" for the purposes of this section, for example, to deal with a change in geographical coverage of the joint local plan where a local planning authority withdraws from a joint local plan agreement.
	Subsection (6) clarifies what references to the joint local plan in this section relate to. It explains that they refer to the joint local plan which the joint local plan agreement or joint local plan direction (which have either been withdrawn or ceased to have effect) related to.
	Subsection (7) clarifies that the relevant authorities are local planning authorities who were party to a joint local plan agreement before the authority set out in subsection (1)(a) withdrew from it, or to whom the joint local plan direction applied before it was modified or withdrawn by the Secretary of State.