Paragraph 2 I1

In this Part of this Schedule—

• “the Board” means Norfolk Rivers Internal Drainage Board;

• “construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal and excavation; and

• “construct” and “constructed” must be construed accordingly;

• “drainage authority” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to an ordinary watercourse in an internal drainage district, the Board;

  2. (b)

     in relation to an ordinary watercourse in an area outside an internal drainage district, the lead local flood authority.

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

• “evidence” includes hydraulic modelling, infiltration test results and geotechnical evaluations;

• “internal drainage district” has the meaning given in the Land Drainage Act 1991^f1;

• “lead local flood authority” means Norfolk County Council in accordance with the Flood and Water Management Act 2010;

• “ordinary watercourse” has the meaning given in the Land Drainage Act 1991

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

• “specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 9 metres of a drainage work or is otherwise likely to—

  1. (a)

     affect any drainage work;

  2. (b)

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

  3. (c)

     affect the flow of water in any drainage work or other surface waters or ground water;

  4. (d)

     affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources;

• “watercourse” has the meaning given in the Land Drainage Act 1991 and for the avoidance of doubt includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, basins, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer; and

• “working day” means any day which is not Saturday, Sunday, a bank holiday or other public holiday in England.