PART IIIPOWERS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN RELATION TO WATERWAYS

Principal powers of Department in relation to waterways

Provisions of the Drainage Order applied for the purposes of this Part

45.—(1) The provisions of the Drainage Order specified in Part I of Schedule 5 shall, with the modifications of those provisions specified in Part II of that Schedule, apply in relation to works under this Part in the same manner as those provisions apply in relation to works under that Order and those provisions, as so modified, shall have effect as if they were provisions of this Part.

(2) Article 25 of the Drainage Order (power of Department to carry out works on behalf of other persons) and Article 32 of, and Schedule 6 (except paragraph 2) to, that Order (protection of watercourses) shall apply in relation to waterways as those provisions apply to watercourses within the meaning of that Order.

(3) Article 26 of the Drainage Order (power of Department to contribute to cost of works) shall apply in relation to waterways as that Article applies to designated watercourses within the meaning of the Drainage Order.