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of the parts of an area of a regional flood defence committee which are not local flood defence districts) is repealed.