Paragraph 317 I1

The following provisions apply for the protection of the Agency unless otherwise agreed in writing between the undertaker and the Agency.

In this part of this Schedule –

• “Agency” means the Environment Agency;

• “drainage work” means any main river and includes any land which provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any main river and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring;

• “flood risk activity permit” means an environmental permit granted under regulation 13 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 for the purposes of a flood risk activity;

• “main river” has the same meaning given in section 113 of the Water Resources Act 1991;

• “specified work” means any development authorised by this Order and carried out in relation to or which may affect any drainage work.