33 Commutation of obligations
Land Drainage Act 1991 (1991 c 59) | Legislation

33  Commutation of obligations

(1)     Where—

(a)     any person is under an obligation imposed on him by reason of tenure, custom, prescription or otherwise to do any work in connection with the drainage of land (whether by way of repairing banks or walls, maintaining watercourses or otherwise); and

(b)     without prejudice to section 107(4) of the Water Resources Act 1991 (application of this section to main rivers), that work is otherwise than in connection with a main river,

the [relevant authority for the area] where the work falls

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