Part IV FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

C1 CHAPTER II DRAINAGE RATES

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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.