The Wessex Regional Flood Defence Committee (Appointed Day) Order 1990
Section 137 of the Water Act 1989 contains provisions for the establishment, as from the 1st September 1989 (“the transfer date”), of regional flood defence committees in place of regional land drainage committees. Subsection (4) of that section makes provision for the membership of a regional flood defence committee during a period beginning with the transfer date and ending with a date appointed by, in the case of a regional flood defence committee in England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.