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Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) (No. 2) Act 1940 (repealed 5.11.1993)

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2 Improvement of grassways over fen-lands.

(1) Where work for the improvement of a way (not being a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large) over fen-land in an internal drainage district . . . has been done under the authority of the Minister in the exercise of powers conferred by Defence Regulations, the following provisions of this section shall have effect as to— (a) . . . (b) the maintenance by the internal drainage board of the work done. (2)–(7) . . . (8) The Minister may, at any time after the completion of the work, make an order requiring the internal drainage board of the internal drainage district in which the land over which the way runs, . . . . . . is situated to maintain the work done, and, where such an order is made, it shall be the duty of the board to maintain the work unless and until the requirement is revoked by a subsequent order made by the Minister. (9) Any question as to whether the internal drainage board have failed to perform a duty imposed upon them under the last preceding subsection shall be decided by the Minister, and the Minister may, if he is satisfied that they have so failed, give such directions to the board as he thinks fit as to the steps to be taken to remedy the failure, and compliance with any such directions shall be enforceable, on the application of the Minister, by mandamus. (10) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section twenty-four of the Land Drainage Act, 1930, a rate raised by the internal drainage board for the purpose of defraying expenses incurred in connection with the maintenance of the work shall be an owners’ drainage rate. (11), (12) . . . (13) In this section— the expressions “drainage”, “internal drainage district” and “internal drainage board” have the meanings assigned to them respectively by section eighty-one of the Land Drainage Act, 1930; the expression “fen-land” shall be construed generally and not as limited to land in that part of England commonly known as “the Fens”; and . . .

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2 Improvement of grassways over fen-lands.

(1) Where work for the improvement of a way (not being a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large) over fen-land in an internal drainage district . . . has been done under the authority of the Minister in the exercise of powers conferred by Defence Regulations, the following provisions of this section shall have effect as to— (a) . . . (b) the maintenance by the internal drainage board of the work done. (2)–(7) . . . (8) The Minister may, at any time after the completion of the work, make an order requiring the internal drainage board of the internal drainage district in which the land over which the way runs, . . . . . . is situated to maintain the work done, and, where such an order is made, it shall be the duty of the board to maintain the work unless and until the requirement is revoked by a subsequent order made by the Minister. (9) Any question as to whether the internal drainage board have failed to perform a duty imposed upon them under the last preceding subsection shall be decided by the Minister, and the Minister may, if he is satisfied that they have so failed, give such directions to the board as he thinks fit as to the steps to be taken to remedy the failure, and compliance with any such directions shall be enforceable, on the application of the Minister, by mandamus. (10) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section twenty-four of the Land Drainage Act, 1930, a rate raised by the internal drainage board for the purpose of defraying expenses incurred in connection with the maintenance of the work shall be an owners’ drainage rate. (11), (12) . . . (13) In this section— the expressions “drainage”, “internal drainage district” and “internal drainage board” have the meanings assigned to them respectively by section eighty-one of the Land Drainage Act, 1930; the expression “fen-land” shall be construed generally and not as limited to land in that part of England commonly known as “the Fens”; and . . .

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