20 Arrangements with other persons for carrying out drainage works.E+W
(1)Subject to subsection (3) below, an internal drainage board may, by agreement with any person and at that person’s expense, carry out and maintain, whether within or outside their district, any drainage works which that person is entitled to carry out and maintain.
(2)Any local authority other than the council of a non metropolitan district may, by agreement with any person and at that person’s expense, carry out within the local authority’s area any drainage works which that person is entitled to carry out.
(3)The powers conferred on an internal drainage board by subsection (1) above shall not be exercisable in connection with a main river, the banks of such a river or any drainage works in connection with a main river.
(4)The obligation of any person under this section to meet the expenses of any works shall be subject to section 59(6) below.
F1[(5)Subsection (2) above has effect in relation to Wales with the omission of “other than the council of a non-metropolitan district”.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 20(5) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(5), Sch. 11, Pt. II, para. 4(6) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5)); S.I. 1996/396, art.3