6.—(1) The expenses of a board raised by means of drainage rates in respect of the financial year beginning in 1993 and subsequent financial years shall be defrayed out of such rates without regard to the purpose for which any such expenses were incurred, and, in relation to such rates–
(a)the distinction made in section 63(2) of the principal Act, between an owner’s drainage rate and an occupier’s drainage rate, shall cease to have effect;
(b)section 63(3) of the principal Act shall have effect as if the words “Every owner’s drainage rate and” were omitted;
(c)section 69(1), paragraph (d) of section 72(5) of, and paragraphs 1(3)(b) and 22(b) of Schedule 2 to, the principal Act shall cease to have effect.
(2) Sections 64(7), 67(2) (4) and (6), 68(7), 76(2), 77, 78(1) and (2), 79(3) and 116(2) of, and paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 2 to, the principal Act(1) shall have effect from 1st April 1993 as if the references therein to the owner or owners or the owning of hereditaments or land were omitted, but without prejudice to anything done by virtue of those sections before 1st April 1993.
(3) Paragraph 1(1)(a) and (d) and (3) of Schedule 2 to the principal Act shall have effect from 1st April 1993 as if the references therein to the owner of any land were references to the owner who is also the occupier of the land.
Sections 78 and 79 were amended by S.I. 1989/440.