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Local Government Act 1974

Land drainage and rivers clearance - Control of drainage channels and land drainage works

507: Existing drainage channels may be brought under this Part

You could also call this:

"The government can make old drainage channels follow new rules."

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The Minister can decide to bring an existing drainage channel under the rules in this part of the law. You can ask the Minister to do this if you are a council that owns a drainage channel built under a special law. The Minister will then put a notice in the Gazette, which is like a special newspaper, to say when the rules will start applying to that drainage channel.

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Part 29Land drainage and rivers clearance
Control of drainage channels and land drainage works

507Existing drainage channels may be brought under this Part

  1. The Minister may, upon application by the council in which is vested any drainage channel constructed under the provisions of any special Act, by notice in the Gazette, declare that drainage channel to be subject to the foregoing provisions of this Part, as from a day to be named in the notice.

Notes
  • Section 507: inserted, on , by section 2 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).