Arterial Drainage Act, 1925

Commissioners to prepare draft award.

14.—(1) When and so soon as the drainage scheme has been fully carried out and all the works to be executed pursuant thereto have been completed, the Commissioners shall prepare and publish a draft award.

(2) Every draft award prepared under this section shall show either in the body of the award or by means of appropriate maps, drawings, plans, sections, and schedules annexed thereto the following matters:—

(a) in general terms, the lands drained or improved and the works executed pursuant to the drainage scheme, and

(b) the particular lands actually drained or improved, the rated occupiers of such lands, and the several quantities of such lands occupied by such rated occupiers respectively, and

(c) the respective values at the date of the preparation of the drainage scheme of the said several quantities of the lands so drained or improved, and the amounts by which such values are respectively increased by the execution of the said works, and

(d) the total amount of all the costs and expenses incurred by the Commissioners in the execution of works pursuant to the drainage scheme and generally in carrying out the drainage scheme, and

(e) the amount of the portion of the costs and expenses aforesaid which was defrayed out of moneys advanced by the Commissioners (which portion is in this Act occasionally referred to as the advances by the Commissioners), and

(f) the amount of the terminable annuity by which the advances by the Commissioners are to be repaid in accordance with this Act, and

(g) the proportions in which the said lands so drained or improved are to be liable to contribute to the drainage rate for payment of the said terminable annuity and the annual cost of the maintenance of the said works, and

(h) the county or several counties in which the said lands so drained or improved are situate, and, where such lands are situate in more than one county, the proportions in which the advances by the Commissioners and the interest thereon and the said terminable annuity and the said annual cost of maintenance are to be borne by the respective councils of such counties, and

(i) the area to be constituted as a separate drainage district in accordance with the drainage scheme.

(3) Every such draft award shall also contain in draft form the several provisions necessary for doing or providing for every matter or thing which is by this Act required to be expressed in or to be done or provided for by a final award.

(4) In fixing for the purposes of the draft award or a final award the proportions in which any sum or rate is to be borne by the several quantities of the lands so drained or improved the Commissioners shall have regard to the extent to which such lands are respectively benefited or improved by the carrying out of the drainage scheme.