Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1930
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Change 1
9 Interpretation.
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires:— The expression “agricultural land” shall include any land used for agricultural or pastoral purposes or for the purpose of poultry farming or as a market garden, orchard, allotment, or allotment garden, and any woodlands or land used for the purpose of afforestation: The expression “drainage works” shall include the cleansing, scouring, deepening, widening, straightening, or diverting of any watercourse or outfall for water, the removal of any obstruction, natural or artificial, in any watercourse, and the construction of any new watercourse or outfall for water; the construction, repair, raising, lowering, widening, strengthening, or altering, of any embankment, dam, sluice, weir, wall, groyne, or of any structure or erection for the purpose of defence against water; and any works for the prevention or abatement of injury or damage which might be caused by the carrying out of any of the aforesaid operations: The expression “watercourse” shall include any river, stream, ditch, drain (whether open or closed), cut, culvert, dyke, or sluice: . . . . . .
9 Interpretation.
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires:— The expression “agricultural land” shall include any land used for agricultural or pastoral purposes or for the purpose of poultry farming or as a market garden, orchard, allotment, or allotment garden, and any woodlands or land used for the purpose of afforestation: The expression “drainage works” shall include the cleansing, scouring, deepening, widening, straightening, or diverting of any watercourse or outfall for water, the removal of any obstruction, natural or artificial, in any watercourse, and the construction of any new watercourse or outfall for water; the construction, repair, raising, lowering, widening, strengthening, or altering, of any embankment, dam, sluice, weir, wall, groyne, or of any structure or erection for the purpose of defence against water; and any works for the prevention or abatement of injury or damage which might be caused by the carrying out of any of the aforesaid operations: The expression “watercourse” shall include any river, stream, ditch, drain (whether open or closed), cut, culvert, dyke, or sluice: . . . . . .
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