Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009

Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act

2009 asp 6

The Act – Section by Section

Part 3 – Flood Risk Assessment, Maps and Plans

Section 14 – Potentially vulnerable areas and local plan districts: review

47. This section requires SEPA to review and, where appropriate, update the document which identifies potentially vulnerable areas and local plan districts. This review must be carried out by a date specified by the Scottish Ministers and then every 6 years or such lesser period as the Scottish Ministers direct. Subsections (2) to (4) provide that an updated document must comply with the same requirements and that it will be subject to the same approval process as the original document prepared under section 13.