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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 137 of the Water Act 1989 contains provisions for the establishment, as from 1st September 1989 (“the transfer date”), of regional flood defence committees in place of regional land drainage committees. Subsection (4) of section 137 of that Act provides for the membership of a regional flood defence committee during a period beginning with the transfer date and ending with a day appointed by, in the case of a regional flood defence committee for an area the greater part of which is in Wales, the Secretary of State.

The Order appoints 31st March 1990 in relation to the Welsh regional flood defence committee.