Flood prevention

1 Duty of local authorities to assess watercourses.

After section 4 of the M1Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961 (“the 1961 Act”) there shall be inserted the following section—

Assessment and maintenance of watercourses

4A Duty of local authorities to assess watercourses.

Every local authority shall cause the watercourses in their area to be assessed from time to time for the purpose of ascertaining whether any such watercourse is in a condition which is likely to cause flooding of land, not being agricultural land, within or outwith their area.