The General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 2006

Ascertainment of amount of general drainage charge

3.  For the purposes of ascertaining the uniform amount per hectare referred to in section 135(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991 in respect of the Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence District, the Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence District and the Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence District(1) for the year ending on 31st March 2007 and each subsequent year, the number by which the relevant quotient(2) is to be multiplied (as well as being multiplied by one penny) is the number shown in respect of the district in question in the second column of the Schedule.

(1)

The local flood defence districts for the purposes of this Order have been determined in accordance with section 134(3) of the Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57), which provides that the area of a regional flood defence committee in relation to which no local flood defence scheme is in force shall be treated as a single local flood defence district for the purposes of sections 134 and 135 of that Act.

(2)

The relevant quotient is determined under section 135(7) in accordance with the rules contained in the General Drainage Charges (Relevant Quotient) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/165), as amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 22, paragraph 233(1).