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Committees may make byelaws.
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30.—(1) Every county council maintaining drainage works under this Act either directly or through a committee appointed by it and also every joint committee maintaining drainage works under this Act may make byelaws for all or any of the purposes following, that is to say:—
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(a) regulating the opening, closing, and working of sluices, hatches, flood-gates, and other machinery comprised in the works,
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(b) regulating generally the management and operation of the works,
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(c) prohibiting persons from obstructing, polluting, or putting solid matter into any watercourse flowing to, through, or from the works so as to prevent or hinder the efficient operation of the works or to cause flooding of any lands drained by the works,
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(d) prohibiting any injury or damage to the works by any person or any interference therewith by unauthorised persons,
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(e) compelling persons liable to maintain any watercourse or drain to keep the same cleaned and scoured,
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(f) prescribing the penalties which may be inflicted on persons found by a court of summary jurisdiction to be guilty of contravening the byelaws but so that no such penalty shall exceed a fine of twenty-five pounds altogether with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine of five pounds for every day during which the offence continues or, in any case and at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for a term of three months.
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(2) No byelaw made under this section shall be of any force or effect unless and until confirmed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and every such byelaw when so confirmed shall come into operation on the date prescribed in that behalf by the said Minister when confirming the same or, if no such date is so prescribed, immediately upon such confirmation.
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(3) Any person found guilty by a court of summary jurisdiction of contravening any byelaw made under this section may be sentenced by such court to suffer any penalty not exceeding the penalty prescribed by such byelaws in respect of such contravention or, where no penalty is so prescribed, not exceeding a fine of twenty-five pounds together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine of five pounds for every day during which the offence continues or, in any case and at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
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