Introductory text

LAND DRAINAGE

Made 13th July 1990

Coming into force 1st August 1990

Whereas —

1. (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 determination varying the total number of members of the Wessex Regional Flood Defence Committee (hereinafter referred to as “the committee”) from 13 to 15;

2. (2)

   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;

3. (3)

   the constituent councils for the committee are the councils of the counties specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order;

4. (4)

   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—

   1. (a)

      it is inappropriate that the councils of the counties of Devon, Gloucestershire and Hampshire (being three of the said constituent councils) should appoint a member of the committee,

   2. (b)

      that one member of the committee should be appointed by the council of the county of Wiltshire,

   3. (c)

      that two members of the committee should be appointed by each of the councils of the counties of Dorset and Somerset,

   4. (d)

      that three members of the committee should be appointed by the council of the county of Avon; 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:—