Land Drainage Act 1908

1 Short Title, etc

• (1) The Short Title of this Act is the Land Drainage Act 1908.

  (2) This Act is a consolidation of the enactments mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and with respect to those enactments the following provisions shall apply:

  • (a) All districts, Boards, corporations, offices, appointments, bylaws, Orders in Council, orders, warrants, registers, contracts, rates, resolutions, notices, records, instruments, and generally all acts of authority which originated under any of the said enactments or any enactment thereby repealed, and are subsisting or in force on the coming into operation of this Act, shall enure for the purposes of this Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated:

    Provided that every such Board and corporation respectively shall be deemed to be the same Board and corporation respectively under this Act, without change of corporate entity or otherwise:

    Provided also that in the case of members elected or appointed for a specified term the current term shall be computed from the date of its commencement:

  • (b) All members of Boards holding office under any such enactment on the coming into operation of this Act shall continue in office until their successors under this Act come into office:

  • (c) All matters and proceedings commenced under any such enactment, and pending or in progress on the coming into operation of this Act, may be continued, completed, and enforced under this Act.

  (3) This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:

  Part 1—	Drainage Districts and Boards. (Sections 3 to 57.)
  Part 2—	Irrigation Works. (Sections 58 and 59
  Part 3—	Powers of Local Authorities. (Sections 60 to 66.)
  Part 4—	Powers of Private Owners. (Sections 67 to 80.)
  Part 5—	Miscellaneous. (Sections 81 to 89.)