90Contributions by Water Resources Board to river authorities
The Water Resources Board shall have power to contribute to any river authority such sums as the Board may with the approval of the Minister determine in respect of—
(a)any expenses incurred by the river authority in obtaining and recording measurements of rainfall, evaporation, the flow, level or volume of inland waters, and other related matters, in so far as they are measurements which are not required to be obtained and recorded under a hydrometric scheme prepared by the river authority;
(b)any work of an experimental nature carried out by the river authority in pursuance of any direction given or request made by the Board.