The Drainage Charges Regulations 1990

Amount of general drainage charge

4.—(1) For the purposes of any order made under section 49(1) of the principal Act and having effect after 31st March 1990, the reference in section 49(2) of that Act to the number specified in such an order shall be taken to be a reference to such number as (apart from any adjustment made to it to take account of rough grazing land) the Minister considers will secure, so far as reasonably practicable, that the aggregate amount produced by any general drainage charge levied by reference to a quotient determined under regulation 3(2) above will be equal to the aggregate amount which, if the chargeable land in the district had been liable to be rated for the financial year beginning in 1989, would have been produced by a rate levied on that land at an amount in the pound (of rateable value) equal to that quotient multiplied by 1p.

(2) In this regulation, the expressions “chargeable land” and “rough grazing land” have the meanings respectively provided by section 89(1) of the principal Act(1), and the expression “the Minister” has the meaning provided by section 116(1) of that Act(2).

(1)

Section 89(1) was amended by paragraph 30(1) of Schedule 15, and by Schedule 27, to the Water Act 1989.

(2)

The definition of the “the Minster” is to be read subject to paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 15 to the Water Act 1989.