Article 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the North West Regional Flood Defence Committee Order 2006 and comes into force on 1st April 2006.

In this Order, “the committee” means the regional flood defence committee established by section 14 of the Environment Act 1995^f1 and known as the North West Regional Flood Defence Committee, for which the councils for the counties and metropolitan districts specified in the Schedule to this Order are the constituent councils.