Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15JB: Dissolution of joint committee Effect
Subsections (1) and (2) set out that a constituent authority may request that the Secretary of State revokes the regulations that constituted a joint committee and that the Secretary of State may revoke those regulations (if they have been so requested).
	Subsection (3) provides that where regulations constituting a joint committee are revoked, a step taken about a plan or timetable which meets the definition of a corresponding plan or timetable must be treated as being done by the successor authority.
	A successor authority is defined in subsection (4) as a local planning authority which were a constituent authority of the original joint committee or a newly constituted joint committee for the remaining authorities. Subsection (7) allows the Secretary of State to define corresponding timetable or plan for the purposes of this section in regulations.
	Subsections (5) and (6) set out the procedural requirements that apply if the regulations constituting a joint committee are revoked during the independent examination of a local plan or supplementary plan prepared by the joint committee.