2011 No. 696
Local Government, England And Wales
Coast Protection, England And Wales
Environmental Protection, England And Wales
Flood Risk Management, England And Wales
Water Industry, England And Wales
The Environment Agency (Levies) (England and Wales) Regulations 2011
Made 7th March 2011
Laid before Parliament 10th March 2011
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 10th March 2011
Coming into force 1st April 2011

The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 74 and 143(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.
1988 c. 41; section 74 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), section 117(1) and Schedule 13, paragraph 72(1) and (2). The functions of the Secretary of State under section 74 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). Those functions are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). Section 17 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29) allows the Environment Agency to issue levies to lead local flood authorities and provides that the Environment Agency shall be treated as a levying body within the meaning of section 74 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.