s 7 Provisions as to ways over fenlands wholly or partly in internal drainage districts.
(1) Section two of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) ( No. 2) Act, 1940 (which provides for the recovery of expenses in respect of the improvement of ways over fen-land in internal drainage districts and for the maintenance of work done for the improvement of such ways) shall apply in relation to ways partly within an internal drainage district as well as in relation to ways wholly within such a district; and an order may be made under subsection (8) of that section requiring the internal drainage board of an internal drainage district to maintain the work done on any way which is partly within and partly not within that district as if the whole way were within that district, and references in that section to the internal drainage board of the internal drainage district in which the land over which the way runs is situated shall be construed accordingly. (2) Where any sum is recoverable under the said section two from the owner of fen-land in respect of expenses incurred in connection with the improvement of any way over the land, and the land is held on any tenancy, he shall be entitled to recover from the tenant, and any assignee or successor of the tenant, interest on the said sum as from the date on which it became recoverable, at such rate as, in default of agreement between the owner and the tenant, may be fixed by the Treasury, and the interest shall be payable at the same times and be recoverable in the same manner as the rent payable under the tenancy. In a case where the owner has elected to pay the said sum by instalments, the reference in this subsection to the date on which it became recoverable shall be construed as a reference to the date on which it would have become recoverable but for the election.