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Sections 8. and 17. of 9 & 10 Vict. c. 101. repealed. If Commissioners think an Advance expedient, they may issue a Provisional Certificate, with the Sanction of the Treasury.
Expenses of Investigation may be charged upon the Land, if Commissioners shall think fit.
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I. Sections Eight and Seventeen of the said Act of the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and one, shall be repealed, and the said Act. shall be read as if the following Enactment had been therein inserted instead of the said Section Seventeen; that is to say, If the Commissioners shall think that an Advance in respect of the whole or of a proportional Part of the Cost of such Works would be expedient, they may apply to the Commissioners of the Treasury for their Sanction for them to issue to the Owner of Land by whom such Application shall have been made, or, in case his Interest shall have determined, to the Owner of such Land for the Time being, a Provisional Certificate, and such Provisional Certificate shall declare that upon its being shown to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners that the proposed Works have been executed according to the Plan and Specification annexed to the Report of the Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, Surveyor, or Engineer respectively, in a substantial and durable Manner, the Commissioners will cause an Advance to be issued to an Amount not exceeding the Amount of the whole or of such proportional Part as in such Provisional Certificate shall be expressed of the Expenses which shall have been actually incurred in such Drainage, but limited not to exceed a certain Sum in such Provisional Certificate to be expressed: Provided always, that in case the Commissioners, upon the Investigation of such Application, shall be of opinion that the Amount and Permanence of the Improvement which will be effected by the proposed Drainage in the annual Value of the Land will be such that all or a Part of the Expenses of the Investigation of the Application, and of the Expenses of inspecting and ascertaining the due Execution of the Works, should be a Charge on the Land to which the Application shall relate, the Commissioners may by the Provisional Certificate direct that all or such Part as in such Provisional Certificate may be expressed of the Expenses of such Investigation, and of inspecting and ascertaining the due Execution of the Works, may be included in the Expenses in respect of which such Loan, and the Advances on account thereof, shall be made.
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