Part 29ADivestment of land drainage schemes and water race schemes
Transfer petitions and transfer proposals
517MContents of notice of right to object
Every notice given under section 517L must—
- give notice of the local authority's receipt of the transfer petition and transfer proposal under section 517E; and
- give notice of the obligations of the proposer under section 517J, and of the address at which the proposer or a representative of the proposer can be contacted; and
- invite any person (being a person entitled under section 517K to object to the transfer proposal) who wishes to object to the transfer proposal to lodge written objections to the proposed transfer of the land drainage scheme or water race scheme identified in the notice or the transfer proposal prepared in respect of any such scheme, at the principal office of the local authority that has control of that land drainage scheme or water race scheme, on or before a date specified in the notice, which date must be no earlier than 6 weeks after the date of that notice; and
- advise that, where objections are received from—all the objections received by the local authority will be forwarded to the Commission for determination in accordance with section 517T:
- a local authority entitled under section 517K(c) to object to the transfer proposal; or
- the operator of any other drainage system or water supply system that utilises the scheme; or
- scheme users who are occupiers of not less than 5% of the number of separately rateable properties served by the land drainage scheme or water race scheme,—
- a local authority entitled under section 517K(c) to object to the transfer proposal; or
- advise that, where a local authority receives an objection under paragraph (d)(i) or paragraph (d)(ii), any objections received by the local authority under paragraph (d)(iii) will also be forwarded to the Commission, notwithstanding that those objections are from scheme users who are occupiers of less than 5% of the number of separately rateable properties served by the land drainage scheme or water race scheme.
Notes
- Section 517M: inserted, on , by section 11 of the Local Government Amendment Act (No 5) 1999 (1999 No 125).


