SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 10Amendments relating to Regional Flood and Coastal Committees

Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57)

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In Schedule 26 (procedure relating to bye-laws made by the Environment Agency), in paragraph 7 (meaning of “the relevant Minister”)—

(a)

in paragraph (a)(ii), for “the area of a regional flood defence committee the whole or the greater part of whose area is in England” there is substituted “ a flood risk management region the whole or the greater part of which is in England ”;

(b)

after paragraph (c) there is inserted—

“For the purposes of this paragraph “flood risk management region” means the region of a Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, within the meaning of section 22 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.”