193 Main river maps.E+W
(1)Subject to section 194 below, the [F1Agency] shall—
(a)keep the main river map for the area of a regional flood defence committee at the principal office of the [F1Agency] for that area; and
(b)provide reasonable facilities for inspecting that map and taking copies of and extracts from it;
and any local authority whose area is wholly or partly within the area of a regional flood defence committee shall, on application to the [F1Agency], be entitled to be furnished with copies of the main river map for the area of that committee on payment of such sum as may be agreed between the [F1Agency] and that local authority.
(2)For the purposes of this Act a main river map is a map relating to the area of a regional flood defence committee which—
(a)shows by a distinctive colour the extent to which any watercourse in that area is to be treated as a main river, or part of a main river, for the purposes of this Act; and
(b)indicates (by a distinctive colour or otherwise) which (if any) of those watercourses are watercourses designated in a scheme made under section 137 above;
and, subject to section 194 below, references in this Act to a main river map, in relation to the area of a regional flood defence committee, include so much of any map as, by virtue of paragraph 38 of Schedule 26 to the Water Act 1989, has effect as such a map at the coming into force of this Act.
(3)A main river map—
(a)shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes as to what is a main river; and
(b)shall be taken for the purposes of the M1Documentary Evidence Act 1868, as it applies to either of the Ministers, to be a document within the meaning of that Act and to have been issued by that Minister.
(4)In this section and section 194 below “watercourse” has the same meaning as in Part IV of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 193 substituted (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 128 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
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