The Land Drainage (River Authorities) General Regulations 1965

• Citation: S.I. 1965/443
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Land Drainage (River Authorities) General Regulations 1965, and shall come into operation on the 1st April 1965.

Section 2 Revocation

The Land Drainage (River Boards) General Regulations 1950 are hereby revoked.

Section 3 Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations “ the Act ” means the Land Drainage Act 1930 .

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if these Regulations and the Regulations hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.

Section 4 Commutation of obligations

Any notice, given by a river authority under section 9(2) of the Act, of a proposal to commute an obligation to which that section applies shall be in writing, and the provisions of section 120 of the Water Resources Act 1963 (which relates to the service of documents) shall have effect in relation to the giving of that notice as they have effect in relation to the giving of a document required to be given by that Act.

Section 5 Transfer of functions of navigation authority

(1) A river authority intending to enter into an arrangement with a navigation or conservancy authority for any of the purposes mentioned in section 40 of the Act shall, at least one month before the making of the arrangement, publish notice of such intention in one or more newspapers circulating in the river authority area.

(2) Where a river authority has made such an arrangement as aforesaid the notice of the arrangement to be published in the London Gazette contain the following particulars, that is to say—

(a) the name of the authorities making the arrangement;

(b) the date of the arrangement;

(c) the purpose or purposes for which the arrangement has been made;

(d) the place where a copy of the arrangement may be inspected by person interested.

Section 6 Prescribed interests

The persons or bodies affected by an order under the Act in any way relating to river authorities or to the exercise of their functions who, for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Act, have an inter sufficient for the presentation of a memorial that the order shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure, shall be such as are prescribed in following Table:—

( a )(i) The drainage authority of the existing drainage area.

(ii) The proprietors of not less than one sixth part of the lands within the area affected.

( e ) (i) The council of any administrative county or of Greater London, the council of any London borough or county borough, or a river authority, being a council or authority in whose area is situated the whole or part of a drainage area affected by the order or a drainage district proposed to be constituted by the order.

(ii) Any person or body certified by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to be affected by the order and to have an interest sufficient for the presentation of a memorial.