Subject to subsection (2) below, the appropriate agency may raise at an amount per hectare of chargeable land in a flood risk management region a charge to be known as a general drainage charge and to be levied in accordance with sections 135 and 136 below.
The Agency shall not levy a general drainage charge in respect of any flood risk management region unless the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee for that region have recommended that such a charge should be raised.
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