4Flood-prone areas and levee-related land

4 Flood-prone areas and levee-related land

(1)  The Minister, by order, may repeal Schedule 1 and substitute for it a Schedule containing a map indicating that the area shown on the map is the flood-prone area.

(2)  An area may only be shown, in a map contained in an order under subsection (1) , to be the flood-prone area if the area is the same as the area that is specified in the Authority Rules, as in force immediately before the order is made, to be the flood-prone area.

(3)  The Minister, by order, may repeal Schedule 2 and substitute for it a Schedule that –

(a) in Part 1 of the Schedule, specifies the area, or areas, of land that are to comprise the levee-related land for the purposes of this Act; and

(b) indicates generally, on a map in Part 2 of the Schedule, that area or those areas.

(4)  An order under this section –

(a) is a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 ; and

(b) is not an instrument of a legislative character for the purposes of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 .