Article 1 Title commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee (Abolition) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1^st April 2005.

In this Order —

• “the Essex Local Land Drainage District”, “the Great Ouse Local Land Drainage District”, “the Lincolnshire Local Land Drainage District”, “the Norfolk and Suffolk Local Land Drainage District” and “the Welland and Nene Local Land Drainage District” mean the respective local land drainage districts established by the Scheme and subsisting immediately before the coming into force of this Order;

• “the Scheme” means the Anglia Water Authority Local Land Drainage Scheme 1974, approved on 21st March 1974 by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food acting under paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 5 to the Water Act 1973^f1, and as varied by—

  1. (a)

     the Environment Agency Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1996, approved on 30th December 1996 by the said Minister acting under s.17(8) of the Environment Act 1995^f2;

  2. (b)

     the Environment Agency Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1997 approved on 23rd December 1997 by the said Minister under the said section; and

  3. (c)

     the Environment Agency Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1998 approved on 22nd December 1998 by the said Minister under the said section.