268A. (1) In this section—

"2014 establishment day" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Reform Act 2014;

"dissolved authority" means a local authority to which subsection (2)relates or a town council to which subsection (3) relates, as the circumstances require;

"relevant day or date" means the 2014 establishment day or the transfer date, as the circumstances require;

"successor authority" shall be read in accordance with subsection (2) or (3), as the circumstances require;

"transfer date" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Reform Act 2014.

(2) Consequent on the dissolution of certain local authorities by section 17 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, the planning authority for each local government area concerned shall, with effect from the 2014 establishment day, be the successor authority as provided for by that section.

(3) Consequent on the dissolution of town councils by Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, the planning authority for the area which was, immediately before the transfer date (as provided for by that Chapter), the area of a town council shall, on and from that date, be the planning authority for the local government area within which the first-mentioned area is situated on that date (in this section referred to as the "successor authority").

(4) All acts duly done and decisions duly made before the relevant day or date by a planning authority to which subsection (2) relates or a town council to which subsection (3) relates, respectively, shall, subject to this Act, continue to have all such force and effect as they would have had if the transfer order had not been made.

(5) For the purpose of completing any matter outstanding by or with a dissolved authority as the planning authority for a local government area concerned before the relevant day or date, as the case may be, the successor authority shall, on that day or date—

(a) become the planning authority for that area, and

(b) exercise the functions, as the planning authority for that area, of the dissolved body.

(6) So much of Schedule 4 to the Local Government Reform Act 2014 that relates to a dissolved body for the purposes of that Schedule and is relevant to a dissolved body for the purposes of this section shall, subject to any necessary modifications, apply in relation to the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2014.]