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Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1711

LAND DRAINAGE

The Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee (Appointed Day) Order 1990

Made

18th August 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 137(4) and (11)(b) of the Water Act 1989(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:-

1. This Order may be cited as the Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee (Appointed Day) Order 1990.

2. The 11th September 1990 is appointed as the day ending the period beginning with the transfer date for the purposes of section 137(4) of the Water Act 1989 (establishment of regional flood defence committees) in relation to the Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 18th August 1990.

L.S.

Trumpington

Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 137 of the Water Act 1989 contains provisions for the establishment, as from the 1st September 1989 ("the transfer date"), of regional defence flood committees in place of regional land drainage committees. Subsection (4) of that section, makes provision for the membership of a regional flood defence committee during a period beginning with the transfer date and ending with a date appointed by, in the case of a regional flood defence committee in England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

The Order appoints the 11th September 1990 in relation to the Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee.

(1)

1989 c. 15. The definition of "the Minister" is contained in section 189(1).


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