{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014/schedule-10/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014/schedule-10/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/21",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 135 (amount, assessment etc of general drainage charge) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) (charge to be at a uniform rate per hectare of chargeable land)—\n(a) for “a local flood defence district” there is substituted “ a flood risk management region ”;\n(b) for “that district” there is substituted “ that region ”.\n(3) In subsection (3) (calculation), in paragraph (b), for “the local flood defence district” there is substituted “ the flood risk management region ”.\n(4) In subsection (4) (provision that may be made by a single order)—\n(a) in paragraph (b), for “one or more local flood defence districts” there is substituted “ one or more flood risk management regions ”;\n(b) in the words following paragraph (b)—\n(i) for “more than one local flood defence district” there is substituted “ more than one flood risk management region ”;\n(ii) for “districts” there is substituted “ flood risk management regions ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/10/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:35.602503+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}