Barrow Drainage Act, 1927

Preparation of draft award by the Commissioners.

10.—(1) When and so soon as all the works to be executed under the scheme have been completed the Commissioners shall prepare and publish a draft award showing either in the body thereof 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 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 annual values immediately before the commencement of the works of the said several quantities of the lands so drained or improved, and the amounts by which such annual values are respectively increased by the execution of the drainage works, and

(d) the proportions in which the several quantities of the said lands so drained or improved in each of the counties concerned are to be liable to contribute to the drainage rate made under this Act by the Council of that county, and

(e) the total increase in each of the counties concerned in the annual value of the lands in that county drained or improved by the drainage works, and

(f) the proportions in which the counties concerned are to be liable to contribute to the repayment of the advance by the Commissioners and to the cost of the maintenance of the drainage works, such proportions being the proportions which the total increases aforesaid in each of such counties respectively bear to the aggregate amount of all such total increases.

(2) The said 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 provided for by the final award.

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