Textual Amendments
F1Schs. 5, 15, 17 paras. 6(b), 7(2)(7)(a)(14)(a)?(f)(g)(i)(16) repealed (E. W.) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c.60, SIF 130), s. 3, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 2, Sch. 2 paras. 10, 14(1), 15)
23(1)In subsection (2) of section 51 of the 1976 Act (levying and amount of special drainage charge), for the words “authority’s regional land drainage committee” there shall be substituted the words “regional flood defence committee for the area which includes that land”.E+W
(2)For subsection (4) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(4)An order under subsection (2)(b) above may be made so as to apply—
(a)to special drainage charges in general, or
(b)to the special drainage charges proposed to be raised in respect of such areas of regional flood defence committees as may be specified in the order, or
(c)to special drainage charges proposed to be raised in pursuance of one or more schemes made under section 50 above and so specified;
and any such order applying to the charges proposed to be raised in respect of more than one area of a regional flood defence committee or authorised by more than one such scheme may make different provision for the charges in respect of different areas or, as the case may be, the charges authorised by the different schemes.”]