Paragraph 17

In this Part—

• “construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal; and “construct” and “constructed” must be construed accordingly;

• “drainage authority” means in relation to an ordinary water course—

  1. (a)

     the drainage board concerned within the meaning of section 23 (prohibition on obstructions etc. in watercourses) of the Land Drainage Act 1991^f1; and

  2. (b)

     in the case of any area for which there is no such drainage board, the lead local flood authority within the meaning of section (6) other definitions of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010^f2;

• “drainage work” means any ordinary watercourse and includes any land that provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any ordinary watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage, or flood defence;

• “ordinary watercourse” has the meaning given by section 72 (interpretation) of the Land Drainage Act 1991^f3;

• “plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements; and

• “specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 8 metres (or 9 metres in the case of any drainage work under the control of the Beverley and North Holderness Internal Drainage Board) of a drainage work (measured from the bank top of the drainage work) or is otherwise likely to—

  1. (a)

     affect the total volume or volumetric rate of flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work; or

  2. (b)

     affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources.