Introductory text

LAND DRAINAGE

Made 18th August 1990

Coming into force 12th September 1990

Whereas—

(1)

the National Rivers Authority (hereinafter referred to as “the Authority”) in accordance with section 138(3) of the Water Act 1989^f1 (hereinafter referred to as “the 1989 Act”) have submitted to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) a provisional determination (hereinafter called “the determination”) varying the total number of members of the Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee (hereinafter referred to as “the committee”) from twenty-one to twenty-three;

(2)

the Minister proposes to confirm the determination;

(3)

in accordance with section 138(6) of the 1989 Act, the total number of members of the committee to be appointed under section 137(3)(a) and (b) of that Act shall be one less than the number appointed by or on behalf of constituent councils;

(4)

the constituent councils for the committee are the councils of the counties and the London boroughs specified in the first column of the Schedule to the following Order and the Common Council of the City of London;

(5)

the Minister, in accordance with section 138(7) of the 1989 Act, having had regard to the relevant populations of the relevant areas of each of those constituent councils and the proportion which those populations bear to the aggregate of the relevant populations of the relevant areas of all the constituent councils, considers—

(a)

it is inappropriate that the county councils of Gloucestershire, Northampton-shire, Warwickshire and West Sussex (being four of the said constituent councils) should appoint a member of the committee,

(b)

that one member of the committee should be appointed jointly by each of the groups of councils for the counties, London boroughs and cities here listed—

(i)

Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex;

(ii)

Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire;

(iii)

Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest;

(iv)

Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets;

(v)

Barnet, Brent, Harrow and Hounslow;

(vi)

Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hillingdon, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the City of Westminster, and the City of London;

(vii)

Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark;

(viii)

Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Islington;

(ix)

Kingston-upon-Thames, Merton, Richmond-upon-Thames, Sutton and Wandsworth;

(c)

that one member of the committee should be appointed by each of the county councils of Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Surrey.

Now, therefore, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 138(4), (5), (6) and (7) of the 1989 Act^f2 and of every other power enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 15.
f2: Section 137(11)(b) defines “the appropriate Minister” on whom these powers are conferred, and section 189(1) defines “the Minister”.