The North-West, Severn-Trent and Welsh Regional Flood Defence Committees (Boundaries Alteration) Order 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 3047

LAND DRAINAGE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The North-West, Severn-Trent and Welsh Regional Flood Defence Committees (Boundaries Alteration) Order 2005

Made

24th September 2005

Laid before Parliament

3rd November 2005

Coming into force

1st April 2006

The Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales, having, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Environment Act 1995, consulted such persons or representative bodies as they consider it appropriate to consult, published a notice in compliance with that paragraph and served copies of the notice and a draft of this Order on every person carrying out functions under any enactment who appeared to them to be concerned, and, in accordance with paragraph 3 of that Schedule, considered any representations or objections duly made with respect to the draft order and not withdrawn, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 14 of, and paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs (1) and (3), of Schedule 4 to, the Environment Act 1995(1), hereby make the following Order:

(1)

1995 c. 25. The relevant Minister may by order made by statutory instrument alter the boundaries of the area of any regional flood defence committee. The relevant Minister, in relation to any alteration of the boundaries of an area where the whole or any part of that area is in Wales, means “the Ministers” (para (1)(5)(a) of Schedule 4). “The Ministers” means the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (section 56(1)). The functions of the Secretary of State under Schedule 4 are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).