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(1)The Secretary of State shall continue to maintain the committee established under section 3 of the M1Water Act 1989 for advising him with respect to matters affecting or otherwise connected with the carrying out in Wales of the Authority’s functions.
(2)The committee maintained under this section shall consist of such persons as may, from time to time, be appointed by the Secretary of State.
(3)The committee maintained under this section shall meet at least once a year.
(4)The Secretary of State shall pay to the members of the committee maintained under this section such sums reimbursing them for loss of remuneration, for travelling expenses and for other out-of-pocket expenses as he may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine.
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(1)It shall be the duty of the Authority—
(a)to establish and maintain advisory committees, consisting of persons who are not members of the Authority, for the different regions of England and Wales;
(b)to consult the advisory committee for any region as to any proposals of the Authority relating generally to the manner in which the Authority carries out its functions in that region; and
(c)to consider any representations made to it by the advisory committee for any region (whether in response to consultation under paragraph (b) above or otherwise) as to the manner in which the Authority carries out its functions in that region.
(2)The duty to establish and maintain advisory committees imposed by subsection (1) above is a duty—
(a)to establish and maintain an advisory committee for each area which the Authority considers it appropriate for the time being to regard as a region of England and Wales for the purposes of this section; and
(b)to ensure that the persons appointed by the Authority to each such committee are persons who appear to the Authority to have an interest in matters likely to be affected by the manner in which the Authority carries out any of its functions in the region in question;
and it shall be the duty of the Authority in determining the regions for which advisory committees are established and maintained under this section to ensure that one of those regions consists wholly or mainly of, or of most of, Wales.
(3)There shall be paid by the Authority—
(a)to the chairman of an advisory committee established and maintained under this section such remuneration and such travelling and other allowances; and
(b)to any other members of that committee such sums reimbursing them for loss of remuneration, for travelling expenses or for any other out-of-pocket expenses,
as may, with the consent of the Treasury, be determined by the Secretary of State.
(4)For the purposes of this section functions of the Authority which are carried out in any area of Scotland or of the territorial sea which is adjacent to any region for which an advisory committee is maintained shall be regarded as carried out in that region.
(1)It shall be the duty of the Authority—
(a)to establish and maintain advisory committees of persons who are not members of the Authority but appear to it to be interested in salmon fisheries, trout fisheries, freshwater fisheries or eel fisheries in the different parts of the controlled area; and
(b)to consult those committees as to the manner in which the Authority is to perform its duty under section 114 below.
(2)The duty to establish and maintain advisory committees imposed by subsection (1) above is a duty to establish and maintain—
(a)a regional advisory committee for each such region of the controlled area as the Authority considers it appropriate for the time being to regard as a region of that area for the purposes of this section; and
(b)such local advisory committees as the Authority considers necessary to represent the interests referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection in the different parts of each such region;
and it shall be the duty of the Authority in determining the regions for which regional advisory committees are established and maintained under this section to ensure that one of those regions consists (apart from territorial waters) wholly or mainly of, or of most of, Wales.
(3)There shall be paid by the Authority—
(a)to the chairman of an advisory committee established and maintained under this section such remuneration and such travelling and other allowances; and
(b)to any other members of that committee such sums reimbursing them for loss of remuneration, for travelling expenses or for any other out-of-pocket expenses,
as may, with the consent of the Treasury, be determined by one of the Ministers.
(4)In this section “the controlled area” means the area specified in section 2(6) above in respect of which the Authority carries out functions under Part V of this Act.
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