Version Superseded: 01/04/2013
Point in time view as at 01/10/2005. This version of this provision has been superseded.
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(1)The [F1Agency]may issue precepts to internal drainage boards requiring payment of any amount required to be contributed by those boards under section 139 above.
(2)An internal drainage board shall pay, in accordance with any precept issued to them under this section, the amount thereby demanded.
(3)It shall be the duty of the [F1Agency] to prepare, in such form as the relevant Minister may direct, a statement of—
(a)the purposes to which the amount demanded by any precept issued by the [F1Agency] under this section is intended to be applied; and
(b)the basis on which it is calculated;
and an internal drainage board shall not be liable to pay the amount demanded by any such precept until they have received such a statement.
(4)Compliance with any precept issued by the [F1Agency] in accordance with this section may be enforced by mandamus.
(5)In this section “the relevant Minister” has the same meaning as in section 140 above.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 141 substituted (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 128 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3
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