Part IV FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
C1 CHAPTER II DRAINAGE RATES
Making and assessment of rates
48 Procedure for making of rate.
1
A drainage rate shall—
a
be made by the drainage board for an internal drainage district in writing under the common seal of the board; and
b
be treated as made on the date on which a resolution is passed by the board authorising their seal to be affixed to the rate.
2
A drainage rate made by a drainage board shall not be valid unless notice of it stating-
a
the amount of the rate;
b
the amounts of the board’s expenses to be raised by means of drainage rates and special levies, respectively; and
c
the date on which the rate was made,
is given by the board in accordance with subsection (3) below within ten days of its being made.
3
A notice under subsection (2) above of a rate made by the drainage board for any internal drainage district may, as the board think fit, either—
a
be affixed in one or more public or conspicuous places in that district; or
b
be published in one or more newspapers circulating in that district.
4
Every drainage rate shall be in the prescribed form.
Pt. IV Chs. I, II (ss. 36-54) restricted (1.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 2(2), 4(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(2)