{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-trent-water-authority-regional-land-drainage-committee-order-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/566",
  "legislation_title": "The Severn-Trent Water Authority (Regional Land Drainage Committee) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-trent-water-authority-regional-land-drainage-committee-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LAND DRAINAGE\nMade 22nd March 1988\nComing into force 1st April 1988\nWhereas—\n(1) the Severn-Trent Water Authority (hereinafter referred to as “the Water Authority”) in accordance with section 2(5) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (hereinafter referred to as “the 1976 Act”(a) have submitted to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) a determination dated 12th February 1988 (hereinafter called “the determination”) varying the total number of members of their regional land drainage committee (hereinafter referred to as “the committee”) from seventeen to twenty-one;\n(2) the Minister proposes to confirm the determination;\n(3) the constituent councils for the committee are the councils of the counties and the metropolitan districts specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order;\n(4) the Minister having had regard to the estimated penny rate product and proportion mentioned in section 3(5) of the 1976 Act relating to each of the said constituent councils considers—\n(a) it is inappropriate that the councils of the counties of Clwyd, Lincoln, Northampton and Oxford, and of the metropolitan district of Sheffield (being five of the said constituent councils) should appoint a member of the committee,\n(b) that one member of the committee should be appointed jointly by each of the following groups of councils, namely the councils of the counties of Avon and Gloucester, the councils of the counties of Hereford and Worcester, and Warwick, the councils of the counties of Powys and Salop, the metropolitan district councils of Coventry and Solihull, the metropolitan district councils of Doncaster, Humberside and Rotherham and the metropolitan district councils of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton,\n(c) that one member of the committee should be appointed by each of the councils of the counties of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Stafford and one such member should be appointed by the metropolitan district council of Birmingham.\n(5) in accordance with s.3(4) of the 1976 Act, the number of members of the committee to be appointed by or on behalf of constituent councils under the provisions of this Order is to be one more than the total number of members to be appointed by the Minister and by the Water Authority under section 2(1)(a) and (b) of the 1976 Act.\nNow, therefore, the Minister(), in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(5) and 3(3) and (5) of the 1976 Act and of every other power enabling him in that behalf, and having had regard to the estimated penny rate product and proportion mentioned in section 3(5) of the 1976 Act relating to each of the said constituent councils, hereby orders as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The powers of section 2(5) and 3(3) and (5) of the 1976 Act are conferred upon “the Minister”, which expression is by section 116(1) of that Act defined as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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