SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 10Amendments relating to Regional Flood and Coastal Committees

6Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57)

1

Section 134 (raising of general drainage charges) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) (power of Environment Agency and Natural Resources Body for Wales to raise charge per hectare of chargeable land in a local flood defence district), for “a local flood defence district” there is substituted “a flood risk management region”.

3

In subsection (2) (power under subsection (1) subject to recommendation of the regional flood defence committee)—

a

for “any local flood defence district” there is substituted “any flood risk management region”;

b

for “the regional flood defence committee for the area in which that district is situated” there is substituted “the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee for that region”.

4

Subsection (3) (treatment of the parts of an area of a regional flood defence committee which are not local flood defence districts) is repealed.