Amendment of the Flood Risk Regulations 2009

17.  Regulation 25 (Duty to prepare flood risk management plans: Environment Agency) is renumbered as regulation 25(1) and in that paragraph—

(a) substitute “each relevant flood risk area” for “each flood risk area identified by it under regulation 13”, and

(b) insert after paragraph (1)—

“(2) “Relevant flood risk area” means—

(a) a flood risk area identified by the Environment Agency under regulation 13, and

(b) a flood risk area in an English cross border area in which the Secretary of State and Scottish Ministers have identified (under regulation 14A) that there is a significant flood risk from—

(i) the sea,

(ii) main rivers, or

(iii) reservoirs.”.