Section 62: Duty of certain bodies and persons to have regard to the purposes for which National Parks are designated.

Environment Act 1995 · 1995 c. 25View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: National Parks

After section 11 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (general powers of local planning authorities in relation to National Parks) there shall be inserted—

The duty imposed by subsection (1) of the section 11A inserted by subsection (1) above shall take effect, in the case of any particular National Park, as from the time when a National Park authority becomes the local planning authority for that Park.

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