River Owenmore Drainage Act, 1926

Maintenance of drainage works.

12.—(1) The final award shall operate and be expressed to charge, impose and confer on the county council the duty and power of maintaining the drainage works the subject of the final award in good repair and condition and proper and efficient working order, and of doing all matters and things reasonably necessary for or incidental to such maintenance.

(2) During each of the forty local financial years next succeeding the date of the final award the county council shall raise by means of the drainage rate the sum of one thousand and fifty pounds whereof the sum of five hundred and fifty pounds shall be applied in payment of the said annual sum of five hundred and fifty pounds payable to the Commissioners by the county council under this Act and the sum of five hundred pounds shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be applied by the county council in discharge of the costs and expenses incurred by them in that year in the performance of their duty under this section of maintaining the said drainage works.

(3) If in any of the said forty local financial years the said costs and expenses shall be less than the sum of five hundred pounds applicable thereto pursuant to this section in that year, the surplus of such sum above the amount of the said costs and expenses shall be retained by the county council and shall be applied by them towards meeting the costs and expenses incurred by them in the performance of their said duty in such subse quent local financial year as they shall think fit.

(4) If in any of the said forty local financial years the said costs and expenses shall exceed the sum of five hundred pounds the county council may pay the excess of such costs and expenses over the said sum out of the county fund but shall not in any one local financial year pay more than one hundred pounds out of the county fund under this section.

(5) All costs and expenses incurred by the county council in the performance of their said duty after the expiration of the said forty local financial years shall be raised by means of the drainage rate.