Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 6)

Part 3 Flood risk assessment, maps and plans

Bodies of water etc.: mapping and assessment

17 Local authorities to prepare maps of bodies of water etc.

(1) Every local authority must prepare a map which shows (or more than one map which, taken together, show) relevant bodies of water and sustainable urban drainage systems in its area.

(2) Each map must—

(a) be prepared by such date as the Scottish Ministers may direct,

(b) be prepared at a scale that the authority considers most appropriate, and

(c) contain such information and be in such form as the Scottish Ministers may specify in regulations.

(3) A local authority must, from time to time, review and where appropriate update the map (or maps) prepared for its area under subsection (1).

(4) A local authority must make available for public inspection the map (or maps) prepared under this section for the time being applicable to its area.

(5) In this section and section 18—

• “relevant body of water”—

  (a)

  means—

  (i)

  a body of surface water other than a stretch of coastal water, or

  (ii)

  a body of underground water forming part of a watercourse (but not including a watercourse which is wholly underground), but

  (b)

  does not include sewers and drains which drain into sewers,

• “sustainable urban drainage system” has the meaning given in section 59(1) of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 47).