Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland) 1863

Power to Drainage Boards to remove or alter any insufficient Bridges, &c.

72. If the Commissioners shall be of opinion that for the Purpose of carrying out the Drainage Works in any District it is necessary to rebuild or alter any existing Bridge, Culvert, or Archway for the Discharge of Water under any public Road, it shall be lawful for any Drainage Board (having first obtained the Certificate of the Commissioners to that Effect) to take down and remove or to alter such Bridge, Culvert, or Archway, the Drainage Board (when in the Opinion of the Commissioners necessary) constructing a temporary Bridge, Culvert, or Archway in the Place of that so to be taken down, removed, or altered, and supporting and maintaining the same until the Completion of the Works necessary for the Restoration to public Use of such Bridge, Culvert, or Archway; and in every Case where an existing Bridge, Culvert, or Archway shall be taken down and removed the Drainage Board shall construct a new Bridge, Culvert, or Archway, with the necessary Roads of Approach thereto respectively, according to such Plans, Specification, and Estimate as shall have been submitted to and approved by the said Commissioners; and the Expense of such temporary and permanent Bridge, Culvert, or Archway and Roads shall (save as herein-after mentioned) form Part of the Costs of the Works in the District in which the same may be situated.