22 Powers of Ministers to authorise landowners to carry out drainage works

22  Powers of Ministers to authorise landowners to carry out drainage works

(1)     Where—

(a)     any persons interested in any land are of the opinion that it is capable of improvement by drainage works; but

(b)     the works cannot be carried out by reason of the objection or disability of any person whose land would be entered upon, cut through or interfered with by or for the purposes of the works,

those persons may present an application to the appropriate Minister for an order under this section authorising them to carry out such drainage works as are expedient with a view to the improvement of the land.

(2)     An application for an order under this section—

(a)     shall be in the prescribed form; and

(b)     shall contain particulars of the proposed works and the persons by whom they are to be carried

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