The Regional Flood Defence Committee (Welsh Region) Order 1996
Section 11(3) of the Water Resources Act 1991 (hereinafter called “the Act”) provides that the total number of members of a regional flood defence committee of the National Rivers Authority 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 National Rivers Authority to the appropriate Minister (in the case of the Welsh Regional Flood Defence Committee, the Secretary of State for Wales) under section 11(4) of the Act, and is confirmed by the Minister. Where the total number of members is so increased, the Minister is required by section 11(5) of the Act by Order to specify the number of members to be appointed to the committee by each of the constituent councils for the committee. The total number to be so appointed is required by section 11(6) of the Act to exceed by one the number of the other members of the committee (appointed by the Minister and the National Rivers Authority).