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Barrow Drainage Act, 1927
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Constitution of Barrow Drainage District.

13.—(1) The final award shall operate and be expressed to constitute the area specified in that behalf therein to be a separate drainage district to be called and known as the Barrow Drainage District.

(2) The area so constituted by the final award to be a separate drainage district may include the whole or any part of one or more drainage districts constituted under the Drainage and Navigation (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1857, or under the Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Acts, 1863 to 1892, and existing at the passing of this Act, which districts are in this section referred to as existing drainage districts.

(3) Where the whole of an existing drainage district is included in the Barrow Drainage District the lands comprised in such existing drainage district shall remain liable to any capital sum charged thereon in respect of the execution of the drainage works in the district and to any rent-charge charged thereon for the repayment of such capital sum and the interest thereon, and such existing drainage district shall continue to exist in so far as is necessary for the collection and recovery of such capital sum and such rent-charge but for all other purposes shall cease to exist as on and from the date of the final award.

(4) Where part of an existing drainage district is included in the Barrow Drainage District, the lands comprised in such part of such existing drainage district shall remain liable to their proper proportion of any capital sum charged on the lands comprised in such existing drainage district in respect of the execution of the drainage works in the district and to their proper proportion of any rent-charge charged on such lands for the repayment of such capital sum and the interest thereon, and such part of such existing drainage district shall continue to form part of such district for all purposes relating to the collection and recovery of such capital sum and such rent-charge but for all other purposes shall cease to form part of such existing drainage district.