Environment Act 1995 : Chapter 25.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
[1995]
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Environment Act 1995 : Chapter 25. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ParT I CHAPTER I Regional flood defence committees. Composition of regional flood defence committees. (b) to any other members of that committee such sums by way of reimbursement (whether in whole or in part) for loss of remuneration, for travelling expenses or for any other out-of- pocket expenses, as may be determined by one of the Ministers. (8) In this section “the controlled area” means the area specified in section 6(7) above in respect of which the Agency carries out functions under section 6(6) above and Part V of the 1991 Act. Flood defence committees 14.—(1) There shall be committees, known as regional flood defence committees, for the purpose of carrying out the functions which fall to be carried out by such committees by virtue of this Act and the 1991 Act. (2) Subject to Schedule 4 to this Act (which makes provision for the alteration of the boundaries of and the amalgamation of the areas of regional flood defence committees)— (a) there shall be a regional flood defence committee for each of the areas for which there was an old committee immediately before the transfer date; but (b) where under section 165(2) or (3) of the 1991 Act any function of the Agency falls to be carried out at a place beyond the seaward boundaries of the area of any regional flood defence committee, that place shall be assumed for the purposes of this Act and the 1991 Act to be within the area of the regional flood defence committee to whose area the area of sea where that place is situated is adjacent. (3) The Agency shall maintain a principal office for the area of each regional flood defence committee. (4) In this section “old committee” means a regional flood defence committee for the purposes of section 9 of the 1991 Act. 15.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, a regional flood defence committee shall consist of the following, none of whom shall be a member of the Agency, that is to say— (a) a chairman and a number of other members appointed by the relevant Minister; (b) two members appointed by the Agency; (c) a number of members appointed by or on behalf of the constituent councils. (2) Any person who immediately before the transfer date is, by virtue of his appointment— (a) by a Minister of the Crown, (b) by or on behalf of any council, or (c) by the National Rivers Authority, the chairman or a member of an old committee which, by virtue of section 14 above, is replaced by a new committee shall be treated, on and after that date, for the remainder of the period for which he would, under the terms of his appointment, have held office in relation to the old commutes, as if he had been appointed as the chairman or, as the case
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