{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995/schedule-5/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/25",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, a person nominated by one or more constituent councils may act as deputy for a member of a flood defence committee appointed by or on behalf of that council or those councils and may, accordingly, attend and vote at a meeting of the committee, instead of that member.\n(2) A person nominated under sub-paragraph (1) above as deputy for a member of a flood defence committee may, by virtue of that nomination, attend and vote at a meeting of a sub-committee of that committee which—\n(a) has been appointed by that committee under Part II of this Schedule; and\n(b) is a committee to which the member for whom he is a deputy belongs.\n(3) A person acting as deputy for a member of a flood defence committee shall be treated for the purposes for which he is nominated as a member of that committee.\n(4) A person shall not act as deputy for a member of a flood defence committee unless his nomination has been notified to such officer of the Agency as is appointed to receive such nominations.\n(5) A nomination under this paragraph shall be in writing and may apply either to a particular meeting or to all meetings during a stated period or until the nomination is revoked.\n(6) A person shall not act as deputy for more than one member of a flood defence committee.\n(7) Nothing in this paragraph shall entitle a person to attend and vote at a meeting of a local flood defence committee by reason of his nomination as deputy for a member of a regional flood defence committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 repealed (E.W.) (1.4.2011) by Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29), s. 49(3), Sch. 2 para. 53 (with s. 49(1)(6)); S.I. 2011/694, art. 3(i) (with art. 5(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/25/schedule/5/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:02.335333+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."
}