Statutory Instruments
LAND DRAINAGE
Made
29th June 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 Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee (Appointed Day) Order 1990.l
2. 30th June 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 Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee.
Inwitness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
L.S.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
29th June 1990.
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 137 of the Water Act 1989 contains provisions for the establishment, as from 1st September 1989 (“the transfer date”), of regional flood defence 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 withthe transfer date and ending witha date appointed by, in the case of a regional flood defence committee in England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
The Order appoints 30th June 1990 in relation to the Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee.
1989 c. 15. The definition of “the Minister” is contained in section 189(1).