Section 185 Savings in respect of existing drainage obligations.
England and Wales
Nothing in the flood defence provisions of this Act shall operate to release any person from an obligation to which section 21 of the M1Land Drainage Act 1991 applies.
The functions of the F1appropriate agency as respects the doing of any work under the flood defence provisions of this Act are not to be treated as in any way limited by the fact that some other person is under an obligation, by reason of tenure, custom, prescription or otherwise, to do that work.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in s. 185(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 296 (with Sch. 7)
Marginal citations
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Notes on Part VII
Modifications
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Pt. VII (ss. 154-186): Transfer of functions (1.4.1996) to the Agency by 1995 c. 25, s. 2(1)(a)(iv) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3