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 Composition of local flood defence committees. (6) A local flood’ defence scheme may define a local flood defence district— (a) by reference to the districts which were local land drainage districts immediately before 1st September 1989; (b) by reference to the area of the regional flood defence committee in which that district is situated; (c) by reference to a map; or partly by one of those means and partly by another or others. (7) A local flood defence scheme may contain incidental, consequential and supplementary provisions. (8) Either of the Ministers may approve a local flood defence scheme with or without modifications; and any scheme approved under this subsection shall come into force on a date fixed by the Minister approving It. 18.—(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, a local flood defence scheme shall provide that any local flood defence committee to which it relates shall consist of not less than eleven and not more than fifteen members. (2) A regional flood defence committee may include in a local flood defence scheme which they submit to the Agency a recommendation that a committee to which the scheme relates should consist of a number of members greater than fifteen; and a scheme so submitted shall be taken to provide for the number of members of a committee if it contains a recommendation under this subsection relating to that committee. (3) The power conferred on each of the Ministers by section 17(8) above shall include power to direct that a committee to which a recommendation under subsection (2) above relates shall consist either of the recommended number of members or of some other number of members greater than fifteen. (4) A local flood defence committee shall consist of— (a) a chairman appointed from among their own members by the regional flood defence committee; (b) other members appointed by that committee; and (c) members appointed, in accordance with and subject to the terms of the local flood defence scheme, by or on behalf of constituent councils. (5) The number of members appointed to a local flood defence committee by or on behalf of constituent councils shall be one more than the total number of members appointed by the regional flood defence committee. (6) In appointing a person to be a member of a'local flood defence committee, the regional flood defence committee shall have regard to the desirability of appointing a person who has experience of, and has shown capacity in, some matter relevant to the functions of the committee to which he is appointed. (7) Any person who, immediately before the transfer date is, by virtue of an appointment by an old regional committee or by or on behalf of any council, the chairman or a member of a local flood defence committee f
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