517ZLPower to repair or maintain land drainage schemes and water races

1. If a land drainage scheme or water race scheme is not repaired or maintained in a due state of efficiency, the owners or occupiers for the time being of the land through, on, or between which the land drainage scheme or water race scheme is situated may, after giving 7 clear days notice to the scheme owner of their intention to do so, repair or otherwise maintain the same in a due state of efficiency, and recover in a summary manner from the scheme owner a fair and equitable proportion of the expenses incurred by them in so doing.