The Severn-Trent Water Authority (Regional Land Drainage Committee) Order 1988
Section 2(3) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (hereinafter called “the Act”) provides that the total number of members of a Water Authority’s regional land drainage committee shall not be less than eleven nor more than seventeen unless a determination that the total number of such members should be increased is submitted by the Water Authority to the appropriate Minister (in the case of the Severn-Trent Water Authority, the Minister of Agiculture, Fisheries and Food) under section 2(5) of the Act, and is confirmed by the Minister. Where the total number of members is so increased, the Minister is required by section 3(3) of the Act by order to specify anew the number of members to be appointed to the committee by or on behalf of the constituent councils for the committee (in the case of the Severn-Trent Water Authority, the county and metropolitan district councils for the water authority’s area). This number is required by section 3(4) of the Act to exceed by one the number of the other members of the committee (appointed by the Minister and the Water Authority). In determining the number of members to be appointed by or on behalf of each constituent council, the Minister is required by section 3(5) of the Act to have regard to the estimated penny rate product and proportion mentioned in that sub-section and where, having regard thereto, the Minister considers it inappropriate that a constituent council should appoint a member of the committee, or considers that one or more members should be appointed jointly by that council and one or more other constituent councils, he may by the Order so provide.