LAND DRAINAGE, ENGLAND Title commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee (Abolition) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1 st April 2005. 2 In this Order — “the Essex Local Land Drainage District”, “the Great Ouse Local Land Drainage District”, “the Lincolnshire Local Land Drainage District”, “the Norfolk and Suffolk Local Land Drainage District” and “the Welland and Nene Local Land Drainage District” mean the respective local land drainage districts established by the Scheme and subsisting immediately before the coming into force of this Order; “the Scheme” means the Anglia Water Authority Local Land Drainage Scheme 1974, approved on 21st March 1974 by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food acting under paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 5 to the Water Act 1973 , and as varied by— the Environment Agency Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1996, approved on 30th December 1996 by the said Minister acting under s.17(8) of the Environment Act 1995 ; the Environment Agency Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1997 approved on 23rd December 1997 by the said Minister under the said section; and the Environment Agency Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee Local Flood Defence (Amendment) Scheme 1998 approved on 22nd December 1998 by the said Minister under the said section. Abolition of regional flood defence committee and revocation of local flood defence scheme 2 The Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee, being a regional flood defence committee established by section 14 of the Environment Act 1995 , is abolished and the Scheme is revoked. New regional flood defence committees 3 The following three new regional flood defence committees are hereby established — a the Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence Committee, whose area shall comprise the area of the Great Ouse Local Land Drainage District; ` b the Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence Committee, whose area shall comprise the areas of the Essex Local Land Drainage District and the Norfolk and Suffolk Local Land Drainage District; and c the Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence Committee, whose area shall comprise the areas of the Lincolnshire Local Land Drainage District and the Welland and Nene Local Land Drainage District. The Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence Committee 4 The Anglian (Central) Regional Flood Defence Committee shall consist of fifteen members to be appointed as follows – a the Chairman and four other members appointed by the Secretary of State; b two members appointed by the Environment Agency; c eight members appointed by the councils specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of this Order . The Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence Committee 5 The Anglian (Eastern) Regional Flood Defence Committee shall consist of seventeen members to be appointed as follows: – a the Chairman and five other members appointed by the Secretary of State; b two members appointed by the Environment Agency; c nine members appointed by the councils specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of this Order . The Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence Committee 6 The Anglian (Northern) Regional Flood Defence Committee shall consist of seventeen members to be appointed as follows: – a the Chairman and five other members appointed by the Secretary of State; b two members appointed by the Environment Agency; c nine members appointed by the councils specified in column (1) of Schedule 3 in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of this Order . Appointment of members by constituent councils 7 1 In relation to the regional flood defence committees specified in article 3, the number of members to be appointed to the committee in question by the council or councils of any county specified in column (1) of any Schedule to this Order shall be the number specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Schedule. 2 Where more than one county or metropolitan district is specified in any entry in column (1) of any Schedule to this Order, any appointment made to the committee in relation to that entry by the councils for those counties and metropolitan districts shall be made jointly. Saving 8 Articles 4 to 7 shall have effect subject to section 16 of the Environment Act 1995 (change of composition of regional flood defence committee) Revocation 9 The Anglian Regional Flood Defence Committee Order 1998 is revoked. Elliot Morley Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 30th November 2004