{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southern-regional-flood-defence-committee-order-2004/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southern-regional-flood-defence-committee-order-2004/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3165",
  "legislation_title": "The Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/southern-regional-flood-defence-committee-order-2004",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.\n(2) In this Order–\n“the committee” means the Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee, being the regional flood defence committee established by section 14 of the Environment Act 1995 for which the councils for the counties and London boroughs specified in the Schedule to this Order are the constituent councils; and\n“the Scheme” means the Southern Water Authority Local Land Drainage Scheme 1974, approved on 8th February 1974 by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food acting under paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 5 to the Water Act 1973, and as varied by–\n(a) the National Rivers Authority (Southern Region) Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1993, approved on 17th June 1993 by the said Minister acting under section 12(4) of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n(b) the Environment Agency Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1997, approved on 29th August 1997 by the said Minister under section 17(8) of the Environment Act 1995; and\n(c) the Environment Agency Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1998, approved on 8th April 1998 by the said Minister under section 17(8) of the said Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 37. The Scheme established, within the area of what is now the Southern Regional Flood Defence Committee, local land drainage districts and provided for the constitution, membership, functions and procedure of a local land drainage committee in each such district. The Scheme continued in force by virtue of the section 4(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (c. 70), section 139(2) of the Water Act 1989 (c. 15) (by virtue of which local land drainage schemes had effect as local flood defence schemes), section 2(2) of and paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 2 to the Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60) and section 17(2) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3165/article/1",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}