division_name: Water Bill [HL]
motion: <p pid="a.256.1/2" pwmotiontext="considered">Clause 64 [Regional flood defence committees]:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 158:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.256.2/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Page 81, line 25, at end insert&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"(5) Subsections (1) to (4) above shall have effect until December 2007.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(6) On 1st December 2007 section 14 (regional flood defence committees) of the Environment Act 1995 shall be repealed.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(7) From 1st December 2007 the Secretary of State shall, by order, establish a river basin management committee in place of each regional flood defence committee which will cease to exist under subsection (5).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(8) The timescale for the establishment of river basin management committees under subsection (7) shall be in accordance with Article 14 of the Water Framework Directive.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(9) Each river basin management committee shall include&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/8" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) elected local authority members from the local authorities which are located in part or entirely within the river basin covered by the committee; and</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) other members whom the Secretary of State considers to offer substantial local knowledge on issues within the competence of the committee.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/10" pwmotiontext="moved">(10) Each river basin management committee shall inherit all of the powers and duties of the regional flood defence committee it shall replace.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/11" pwmotiontext="moved">(11) Each river basin management committee shall develop policies and a river basin management plan in consultation with the Environment Agency.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/12" pwmotiontext="moved">(12) Each river basin management committee may, where the size of the river basin so necessitates, and after consulting the Secretary of State, establish such sub-basin management committees as it considers appropriate.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.256.2/13" pwmotiontext="moved">(13) From 1st December 2007 the amendments made in subsections (2) to (4) to Schedule 4 to the Environment Act 1995 shall have effect as if references to "regional flood defence committee" or any variant thereof were to "river basin management committee" or the appropriate variant."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.262.3/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 158) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.262.3/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 17; Not-Contents, 30.</p>