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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-and-water-management-act-2010/section-22",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/29",
  "legislation_title": "Flood and Water Management Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-and-water-management-act-2010",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Establishment",
  "text": "(1) The Environment Agency—\n(a) must divide England ... into regions for the purposes of this section,\n(b) must establish a Regional Flood and Coastal Committee for each region\n(c) ...\n(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) specify the procedure to be followed by the Agency in exercising its functions under subsection (1)(a) (which may include provision about revision, consultation and appeals);\n(b) make transitional provision with respect to the establishment of Regional Flood and Coastal Committees in place of regional flood defence committees.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1) substituted (14.7.2017) by Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(3)(c), Sch. 2 para. 25(5)(a)(i); S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1) omitted (14.7.2017) by virtue of Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(3)(c), Sch. 2 para. 25(5)(a)(ii); S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1) omitted (14.7.2017) by virtue of Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(3)(c), Sch. 2 para. 25(5)(a)(iii); S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(2) substituted (14.7.2017) by Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(3)(c), Sch. 2 para. 25(5)(b)(i); S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 22(2) substituted (14.7.2017) by Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(3)(c), Sch. 2 para. 25(5)(b)(ii); S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 22(3) omitted (14.7.2017) by virtue of Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(3)(c), Sch. 2 para. 25(5)(c); S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22(1)(a) in force at 1.4.2011 by S.I. 2011/694, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 22(1)(b) in force at 1.10.2010 for specified purposes by S.I. 2010/2169, art. 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 22(1)(b)(c) in force at 1.4.2011 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2011/694, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 22(2) in force at 1.10.2010 by S.I. 2010/2169, art. 4, Sch."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/29/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:54.061019+00:00"
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  "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."
}