Section 77: Exercise of Panel's powers for examining application

Planning Act 2008 · 2008 c. 29View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 6: Deciding applications for orders granting development consent — Chapter 2: The Panel procedure

In this section "procedural power" means any power conferred on the Panel for the purposes of its examination of the application.

A procedural power, as well as being exercisable by the Panel itself, is also (subject to subsection (3)) exercisable by any one or more of the members of the Panel.

The Panel may decide to restrict or prohibit the exercise of a procedural power otherwise than by the Panel itself.

Subsection (2)—

applies whether or not there is an allocation under section 76(2), and
where there is such an allocation, is in addition to section 76(3)(a).

Subsection (3) does not authorise curtailment of a power conferred by section 76(3)(a).

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