{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-134",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-134.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/57",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991",
  "path": "section/134",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "134",
  "heading": "Raising of general drainage charges.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, the appropriate agency may raise at an amount per hectare of chargeable land in a flood risk management region a charge to be known as a general drainage charge and to be levied in accordance with sections 135 and 136 below.\n(2) The Agency shall not levy a general drainage charge in respect of any flood risk management region unless the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee for that region have recommended that such a charge should be raised.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in ss. 120-143 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 276 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 134(1) substituted (14.7.2014) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(2)(r), Sch. 10 para. 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 134(2) substituted (14.7.2017) by Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), s. 88(3)(c), Sch. 2 para. 20(3); S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 134(2) substituted (14.7.2014) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(2)(r), Sch. 10 para. 6(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 134(2) substituted (14.7.2014) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(2)(r), Sch. 10 para. 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 134(3) repealed (14.7.2014) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(2)(r), Sch. 10 para. 6(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 134 restricted (1.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 2(2), 4(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/134",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:46.190861+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."
}