Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 223

LAND DRAINAGE

The General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 1990

Made

13th February 1990

Laid before Parliament

14th February 1990

Coming into force

15th February 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 49(1) and (3) of the Land Drainage Act 1976(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:-

Title, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the General Drainage Charges (Anglian Region) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 15th February 1990.

(2) In this Order-

"the Act" means the Land Drainage Act 1976; and

"the quotient", in relation to a general drainage charge raised by the National Rivers Authority for a local flood defence district for any year, means the quotient ascertained for the purposes of that charge in pursuance of section 49(1) of the Act, read with the Drainage Charges Regulations 1990(2), (which specify the method of ascertaining the amount of such a charge).

Ascertainment of amount of general drainage charge

2. For the purposes of ascertaining the amount per hectare at which a general drainage charge to be raised under section 48(1) of the Act (3) may be raised by the National Rivers Authority in the local flood defence districts specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order for any time after 31st March 1990, the number by which the quotient is to be multiplied as well as being multiplied by 1p shall, in relation to each of the said local flood defence districts, be the number shown opposite the name of each district in the second column of the said Schedule.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 13th February 1990.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Name of Local Flood Defence District	Number
The Essex Local Flood Defence District	30.4
The Great Ouse Local Flood Defence District	34.3
The Lincolnshire Local Flood Defence District	29.9
The Norfolk and Suffolk Local Flood Defence District	29.6
The Welland and Suffolk Local Flood Defence District	29.1

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order concerns general drainage charges which may be raised by the National Rivers Authority in the local flood defence districts within that Authority's Anglian Region for any time after 31st March 1990. It specifies in relation to each local flood defence district a factor to be applied in the formula, prescribed in section 49(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1976, read with the Drainage Charges Regulations 1990, for ascertaining the amount of the general drainage charge raised by the Authority for each such district.

(1)

1976 c. 70; section 49(1) was amended by S.I. 1978/319, and by the Water Act 1989 (c. 15), Schedule 15,paragraph 1(1); section 49(3) was amended by the Water Act 1989, Schedule 15, paragraphs 1(1) and 21. The expression "the Minister" is defined in section 116(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1976, read with S.I. 1978/272 and the Water Act 1989, Schedule 15, paragraph 1(2).

(2)

S.I. 1990/214.

(3)

Section 48(1) was amended by S.I. 1978/319 and the Water Act 1989, Schedule 15, paragraph 1(1), and Schedule 27.