There shall be committees, known as regional flood defence committees, for the purpose of carrying out the functions which fall to be carried out by such committees by virtue of this Act and the 1991 Act.
Subject to Schedule 4 to this Act (which makes provision for the alteration of the boundaries of and the amalgamation of the areas of regional flood defence committees)—
there shall be a regional flood defence committee for each of the areas for which there was an old committee immediately before the transfer date; but
where under section 165(2) or (3) of the 1991 Act any function of the Agency falls to be carried out at a place beyond the seaward boundaries of the area of any regional flood defence committee, that place shall be assumed for the purposes of this Act and the 1991 Act to be within the area of the regional flood defence committee to whose area the area of sea where that place is situated is adjacent.
The Agency shall maintain a principal office for the area of each regional flood defence committee.
In this section "old committee" means a regional flood defence committee for the purposes of section 9 of the 1991 Act.