Arterial Drainage Act, 1925

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Payment of terminable annuities by county councils.

17.—(1) The final award shall operate and be expressed to charge the advances by the Commissioners and the interest thereon and the terminable annuity for repayment thereof on the county fund of the county in which the lands so drained or improved as aforesaid are situate or, where such lands are situate in more than one county, on the respective county funds of all such counties in the proportions in which the councils of such counties are stated in the final award to be liable to contribute thereto.

(2) The terminable annuity for the repayment of the advances by the Commissioners shall be paid to the Commissioners by the county council on whose county fund the same is charged or, where the said annuity is charged on more than one county fund, by the several county councils on whose county funds the same is charged in the proportions in which the same is so charged.

(3) Every terminable annuity or portion of a terminable annuity payable by a county council under this section shall be paid by such council at the times and in the manner appointed for the payment thereof by the final award and shall be so paid out of the moneys raised by such council by means of the drainage rate and if and so far as such moneys are not sufficient out of the county fund.

(4) All moneys payable by the council of a county to the Commissioners in respect of a terminable annuity under this Act may be recovered by the Commissioners from such council by action at law.