SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2E+W Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Sch. 2: power to modify conferred (1.12.1991) by Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56, SIF 130), ss. 74(6), 223(2) (with s. 219(3))

Part IIE+W Transitory Provisions in respect of Flood Defence and Land Drainage

Qualification of electors of members of internal drainage boards—pre 1993 ratesE+W

17(1)Paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Land Drainage Act 1991 (persons entitled to vote in elections of internal drainage board members) shall have effect until the beginning of the financial year beginning in 1993 as if—E+W

(a)in sub-paragraph (1), for the reference to occupying land on which a drainage rate has been levied there were substituted a reference to owning or occupying such land; and

(b)sub-paragraph (2) prevented a person from being entitled to be an elector in respect of his ownership of any land if any amount in respect of an owner’s drainage rate levied on that land remained unpaid for more than a month at the date of the election.

(2)In paragraph 3(1) of that Schedule, a reference to the assessable value of any land, in relation to a relevant date before 1st April 1993, is a reference to the annual value on which any such drainage rate would be assessable in accordance with section 64 of the 1976 Act.

(3)In this paragraph “the relevant date” has the same meaning as in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to that Act of 1991.