Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 388

LAND DRAINAGE

The General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 2004

Made

14th February 2004

Laid before Parliament

16th February 2004

Coming into force

22nd March 2004

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 135(2), (3) and (4) of the Water Resources Act 1991(1), and in accordance with the requirements of section 135(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Title, commencement and revocation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 22^nd March 2004.

(2) The General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 1990(2) is hereby revoked.

Ascertainment of amount of general drainage charge

2. — For the purposes of ascertaining the amount per hectare at which a general drainage charge may be raised by the Environment Agency under section 134 of the Water Resources Act 1991 for a local flood defence district specified in the first column of the Schedule for the year ending 31^st March 2005 or any subsequent year, the number by which the relevant quotient(3) is to be multiplied (as well as being multiplied by one penny) shall be the number shown in the second column of the Schedule in respect of the district in question.

Elliot Morley

Minister of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

14th February 2004

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Name of the Local Flood Defence District	Number
The Essex Local Flood Defence District	284.6
The Great Ouse Local Flood Defence District	333.3
The Lincolnshire Local Flood Defence District	279.1
The Norfolk and Suffolk Local Flood Defence District	301.0
The Welland and Nene Local Flood Defence District	282.4

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order concerns general drainage charges that may be raised by the Environment Agency in the local flood defence districts within the Agency’s Anglian region for the year ending 31^st March 2004 or any subsequent year ending on 31^st March. It specifies in relation to each local flood defence district of that region a factor to be applied in the formula determined under section 135(2) of the Water Resources Act 1991 for ascertaining the amount of the general drainage charge raised by the Authority for any such district.

(1)

1991 c. 57. Section 135(7) was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, s.117(1) and Schedule 13, paragraph 96(3).

(2)

S.I. 1990/223.

(3)

The relevant quotient is determined, under section 135(7) of the Water Resources Act 1991, in accordance with rules set out in the General Drainage Charges (Relevant Quotient) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/165), as amended by the Environment Act 1995, s 120 and Schedule 22, paragraph 233(1).