Sch 8 para 3
(1) The following provisions of the 1972 Act shall also have effect as if a National Park authority were a principal council for the purposes of that Act and as if the relevant Park were the authority’s area, that is to say— (a) section 132 (use of premises); (b) section 135 (contracts of local authorities); (c) section 136 (contributions towards expenditure on concurrent functions); (d) section 139 (acceptance of gifts of property); (e) sections 140, 140A and 140C (insurance); (f) section 143 (subscriptions to local government associations); and (g) sections 222 and 223 (conduct of prosecutions and participation in other legal proceedings). (1A) Sections 138A and 138B of the 1972 Act (powers in connection with belief-related observances) have effect as if a National Park authority were a local authority for the purposes of those sections. (2) Section 38 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (use of spare capacity of local authority computers) shall have effect as if a National Park authority were a local authority for the purposes of that Act. (3) Section 41 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (lost property) shall have effect as if a National Park authority were a local authority for the purposes of that Act. (4) Section 45 of that Act of 1982 (arrangements under the Employment and Training Act 1973) shall have effect as if a National Park authority were a local authority to which that section applies.