Arterial Drainage Act, 1925

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Maintenance of drainage works.

19.—(1) The final award shall operate and be expressed to charge, impose, and confer on the council of the county in which the drainage district thereby constituted is situate, or, where such district is situate in two or more counties, on the several councils of those counties jointly, 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) All costs and expenses incurred by a county council or county councils in the performance of their duty of maintaining drainage works pursuant to a final award shall be raised by such county council or county councils off the drainage district by means of the drainage rate and where the district is situate in two or more counties, in the proportions in which the councils are stated in the final award to be liable thereto.