The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016

Water Resources Act 1991

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

2.  In section 221(1)(1) of the 1991 Act, in the definition of “flood defence functions”—

(a)at the end of paragraph (b) omit “and”;

(b)after paragraph (c) insert—

(d)its functions with respect to securing the drainage of land or the management of flood risk contained in regulations made under section 61 of the Water Act 2014(2); and

(e)any other function of the appropriate agency under any provision of this Act or the 1995 Act so far as it relates to a function falling within paragraph (d);.

(1)

The definition of “flood defence functions” was substituted by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 22, paragraph 177(7) and amended by S.I. 2013/755.