{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anglian-regional-flood-defence-committee-abolition-order-2004/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anglian-regional-flood-defence-committee-abolition-order-2004/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3163",
  "legislation_title": "The Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee (Abolition) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anglian-regional-flood-defence-committee-abolition-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Abolition of regional flood defence committee and revocation of local flood defence scheme",
  "text": "The Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee, being a regional flood defence committee established by section 14 of the Environment Act 1995, is abolished and the Scheme is revoked.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The area of the Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee is that provided for in the Anglian Water Authority Constitution Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/1359), subject to the alteration of boundaries made by the Anglian and Thames Water Authorities (Alteration of Boundaries) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/307) and the National Rivers Authority (Severn-Trent and Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committees Areas) (Boundaries) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/245). Section 2 of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (c. 70) provided for a regional land drainage committee for the area of every water authority. The continuance of a regional committee for this area is provided for by section 137 of the Water Act 1989 (c. 15), section 9 of the Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57) (which provided for a regional flood defence committee for each area for which there was previously a regional land drainage committee) and section 14 of the Environment Act 1995."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3163/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:14:30.095595+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}