Barrow Drainage Act, 1927

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Maintenance of drainage works after first thirty-five years.

21.—(1) After the expiration of the thirty-five local financial years next after the 31st day of March following the date of the final award, the Barrow Drainage Board shall at the prescribed time before the commencement of every local financial year prepare an estimate of the amount which will be required by it during such local financial year to defray the cost of the maintenance of the drainage works and shall apportion the amount so estimated amongst the county councils in the proportions in which their several counties are respectively stated in the final award to be liable to contribute to the cost of the maintenance of the drainage works and shall at the prescribed time in or before such local financial year and in the prescribed manner send to each of the county councils a demand for the amount so apportioned to such council.

(2) Every county council shall in every such local financial year raise by means of the drainage rate the amount so demanded of them by the Barrow Drainage Board in respect of that year and shall pay such amount to the Barrow Drainage Board in two equal moieties on the 30th day of September and the 31st day of March in that year.

(3) The Barrow Drainage Board shall defray the cost of the maintenance of the drainage works in every such local financial year out of the moneys paid to them under this section.

(4) In this section the word “prescribed” means prescribed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.