The Reconstitution of the Langport District Drainage Board Order 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/1411
• Sections: 7

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Reconstitution of the Langport District Drainage Board Order 1994 and shall, unless subject to special Parliamentary procedure, come into force on the date of its confirmation by the Minister, in accordance with paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 3 to the 1991 Act.

Section 2

The Scheme is hereby confirmed subject to the following modifications:

(i) for the heading of the Scheme there shall be substituted:

(ii) in paragraph 2, for the words “District Drainage Board”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “Langport District Drainage Board”, and for the words “Somersetshire Commissioners” there shall be substituted the words “Somersetshire Drainage Commissioners”;

(iii) at the end of paragraph 2 there shall be added “1991” after the word “Act”;

(iv) paragraph 3 shall be deleted and paragraph 4 renumbered “3”;

(v) in paragraph 3 for the word “reconstructed” there shall be substituted the word “reconstituted”.

Section 3

The expenses of the Minister in connection with the making and confirmation of this Order shall be borne equally by the National Rivers Authority and the Langport District Drainage Board.

Section 1

This Scheme shall come into force one month after the date of confirmation of the Order confirming this Scheme.

Section 2

The District Drainage Board as constituted by the Order of the Somersetshire Commissioners dated 9th March 1881 shall be reconstituted such that the number of elected members shall be ten, provided that the existing members of the District Drainage Board shall continue in office until the date of the first meeting of the new members under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 2 to the Land Drainage Act.

Section 3

The expenses of the Minister incurred under section 3(7) of the said Act will be borne equally by the Authority and the Langport District Drainage Board.

Section 4

The existing rights, powers, duties, liabilities, obligations, property (including deeds, maps, books, papers and other documents) of the Langport District Drainage Board as constituted by the 1881 Order shall be the rights, powers, duties, liabilities, obligations and property of the District Drainage Board as reconstructed by this Scheme.