{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internal-drainage-boards-finance-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internal-drainage-boards-finance-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/72",
  "legislation_title": "The Internal Drainage Boards (Finance) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/internal-drainage-boards-finance-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“agricultural buildings” has the meaning provided by paragraphs 2 to 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1988 Act;\n“agricultural land” has the meaning provided by paragraphs 2 and 4 to 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1988 Act;\n“annual value property” means a hereditament comprising agricultural land or agricultural buildings in respect of which drainage rates may be assessed under the principal Act or any local Act;\n“board” means an internal drainage board the continued existence of which is confirmed by section 140 of the Water Act 1989 or which is constituted or re-constituted pursuant to sections 11 to 13 of the principal Act;\n“district” means an internal drainage district the continued existence of which is confirmed by section 140 of the Water Act 1989 or which is constituted or re-constituted pursuant to section 11 of the principal Act;\n“land” has the meaning provided by section 116(1) of the principal Act;\n“local charging authority” in relation to a board means a charging authority for any area wholly or partly included in their district;\n“the National Rivers Authority” means the National Rivers Authority established by section 1 of the Water Act 1989;\n“the principal Act” means the Land Drainage Act 1976;\n“register” in relation to a board means the register prepared by the board in accordance with the Registers of Drainage Boards Regulations 1968;\n“valuation list” means a valuation list maintained under Part V of the General Rate 1967.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 7 of Schedule 5 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Schedule 5, paragraph 37(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1976 c. 70; Schedules 15 and 27 to the Water Act 1989 made minor amendments to and repealed certain provisions relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1968/1672."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1967 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/523",
      "affecting_title": "The Internal Drainage Boards (Finance) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/72/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:29:23.930448+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."
}