{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/norfolk-and-suffolk-broads-act-1988/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/norfolk-and-suffolk-broads-act-1988/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/4",
  "legislation_title": "Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/norfolk-and-suffolk-broads-act-1988",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The Broads Authority.",
  "text": "(1) There shall be a body corporate, to be known as the Broads Authority, which shall perform the functions conferred on it by this Act.\n(2) In this Act the Broads Authority is referred to as “the Authority”.\n(3) The Authority shall consist of—\n(a) nine members appointed as follows—\ntwo by Norfolk County Council;\none by Suffolk County Council;\none by Broadland District Council;\none by Great Yarmouth Borough Council;\none by North Norfolk District Council;\none by Norwich City Council;\none by South Norfolk District Council;\none by Waveney District Council;\n(b) ten members appointed by the Secretary of State; and\n(c) two members appointed by the Authority from those members of its Navigation Committee (established under section 9 of this Act) who are not already members of the Authority.\n(4) A member appointed by a participating authority (that is to say by one of the local authorities mentioned in subsection (3)(a) above) shall be appointed from among the members of that authority.\n(5) The members appointed under subsection (3)(b) shall include persons appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with such bodies appearing to him to represent the following interests, that is to say—\n(a) boating;\n(b) conservation;\n(c) farming and landowning;\n(d) land based recreation\nas he considers appropriate, and in making such appointments the Secretary of State shall have regard to the desirability of maintaining an overall balance under this subsection (5) between those interests.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of supplementing this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(3)(a) substituted (1.6.2005) by Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (Alteration of Constitution of the Broads Authority) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1067), arts. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(3)(b) substituted (1.6.2005) by Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (Alteration of Constitution of the Broads Authority) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1067), arts. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 1(5) substituted (2.7.2009) by Broads Authority Act 2009 (c. i), Sch. 7 para. 1(1) (with ss. 2(3), 3(1), 16(3), 42, Sch. 6 Pts. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 1(6) repealed (2.7.2009) by Broads Authority Act 2009 (c. i), Sch. 7 para. 1(2), 8 Pt. 1 (with ss. 2(3), 3(1), 16(3), 42, Sch. 6 Pts. 2, 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/4/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:49:49.004006+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."
}