Water Resources Act 1991

106 Obligation to carry out flood defence functions through committees. E+W

(1) Without prejudice to any scheme for the appointment of local flood defence committees and subject to subsection (2) below, the [F1 Agency] shall arrange for all its functions relating to flood defence under the following provisions of this Act and the M1 Land Drainage Act 1991 to be carried out by regional flood defence committees, so that those functions of the [F1 Agency] are carried out—

(a) in relation to the area of each regional flood defence committee, by the committee for that area; and

(b) in cases involving the areas of more than one regional flood defence committee, by such committee, or jointly by such committees, as may be determined in accordance with arrangements made by the [F1 Agency].

(2) The [F1 Agency] shall not make arrangements for the carrying out by any other body, or by any committee, of any of its functions with respect to—

(a) the issuing of levies (within the meaning of the M2 Local Government Finance Act 1988); or

(b) the making of drainage charges under Chapter II of Part VI of this Act;

and nothing in this section shall enable the [F1 Agency] to authorise any such other body or any committee to borrow money for purposes connected with the [F1 Agency’s] functions relating to flood defence.

(3) The [F1 Agency] may give a regional flood defence committee a direction of a general or specific character as to the carrying out of any function relating to flood defence, other than one of its internal drainage functions, so far as the carrying out of that function appears to the [F1 Agency] likely to affect materially the [F1 Agency’s] management of water for purposes other than flood defence.

(4) It shall be the duty of a regional flood defence committee to comply with any direction under subsection (3) above.

(5) In subsection (3) above “internal drainage functions” means the functions of the [F1 Agency] under sections 108, 139 and 140 below and the following provisions of the M3 Land Drainage Act 1991, that is to say—

(a) sections 2 to 9 (transfer to the [F1 Agency] and supervision by the [F1 Agency]of the functions of internal drainage boards);

(b) sections 38, 39 and 47 (differential drainage rates and exemptions from such rates);

(c) sections 57 and 58(1) (provisions with respect to contributions by the [F1 Agency] to the expenses of internal drainage boards and the expenses of the [F1 Agency] as such a board).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 106 substituted (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 128 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 106 excluded (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 19, 120(2), Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 13(2), Sch. 23 Pt. II para. 23 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

Marginal Citations

M1 1991 c. 59.

M2 1988 c. 41.

M3 1991 c. 59.