Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15IA: Joint local plans: application of Part Effect
Subsections (1), (2) and (3) set out that local planning authorities preparing a joint local plan (either by agreement or where a joint local plan direction has been given) are required to do anything that would otherwise be required in relation to a local plan, including completing all the steps associated with the preparation, examination and adoption of the joint local plan.
	Subsection (4) allows the Secretary of State to modify the way Part 2 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 applies to joint local plans.
	Subsection (5) sets out that where a spatial development strategy is also operative in the joint local plan area, or any part of it, the joint local plan will have to be in general conformity with the relevant spatial development strategy, however the effect of the strategy only applies to those parts of the joint plan area that are covered by the strategy.
	Subsection (6) defines the meaning of "relevant authority" for the purposes of this section.