The General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 826

LAND DRAINAGE, ENGLAND

The General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 2006

Made

16th March 2006

Laid before Parliament

20th March 2006

Coming into force

10th April 2006

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 135(2), (3) and (4) of the Water Resources Act 1991(1), and in accordance with the requirements of section 135(3) of that Act:

Title, commencement and revocation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 2006 and comes into force on 10th April 2006.

(2) The General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 2004(2) is revoked.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order, “the Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence District”, “the Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence District” and “the Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence District” mean the respective areas of the Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence Committee, the Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence Committee and the Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence Committee, which were established by the Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee (Abolition) Order 2004(3).

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(4) for the year ending on 31st March 2007 and each subsequent year, the number by which the relevant quotient(5) 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.

Elliot Morley

Minister of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

16 March 2006

Article 3

SCHEDULE

Name of the Local Flood Defence District	Number
The Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence District	334.88
The Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence District	300.47
The Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence District	300.60

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies, in relation to the Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence District, the Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence District and the Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence District, the factor by which the relevant quotient is to be multiplied (as well as being multiplied by one penny) under section 135(2) of the Water Resources Act 1991 for the purposes of ascertaining the general drainage charge per hectare of chargeable land for each of these districts for the year ending on 31st March 2007 and each subsequent year.

The Environment Agency may raise a general drainage charge in these districts pursuant to section 134 of the Water Resources Act 1991.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies of this document can be obtained from the Flood Management Division, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Area 3B, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL.

(1)

1991 c. 57. Section 221(1) defines “the Ministers”. The references to the Authority were replaced with references to the Environment Agency by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 22, paragraph 128. Section 135(2) and (3) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), Schedule 13, paragraph 96(1) and (2) and Schedule 14. Section 135(7) was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 13, paragraph 96(3).

(2)

S.I. 2004/388.

(3)

S.I. 2004/3163.

(4)

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.

(5)

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).