A general drainage charge raised by the appropriate agency for a flood risk management region for any year shall be at a uniform amount per hectare of chargeable land in that region.
The uniform amount referred to in subsection (1) above shall be ascertained, subject to subsection (3) below, by multiplying the relevant quotient . . . by one penny and by such number as may be specified by either of the Ministers by order made for the purposes of this subsection.
The number specified in an order under this section for the purposes of subsection (2) above shall (apart from any adjustment made to it to take account of rough grazing land) be such as the Minister making the order considers will secure, so far as reasonably practicable, that the amount specified in paragraph (a) below will be equal to the amount specified in paragraph (b) below, that is to say—
An order under this section may be made so as to apply either—
and any such order applying to more than one flood risk management region may make different provision as respects the different flood risk management regions to which it applies.
Schedule 15 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the assessment, incidence, payment and enforcement of general drainage charges.
The power of each of the Ministers to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
In this section "relevant quotient" means a quotient determined for the year concerned in accordance with rules contained in regulations made by either of the Ministers.