Commentary on Sections Part 4 – Final Provisions
45.Section 25 provides for the Clerk appointed under the 1846 Act to continue until replaced by the Commission. It also provides that if the Commission needs to give notice to a heritor before the Register of Heritors has been prepared, it must give notice to the person it believes, after reasonable enquiry, to be the heritor.
46.Section 26 repeals the 1846 Act.
47.Section 27 provides definitions for certain terms used in the Act.
48.Section 28 provides that the Act is to come into force the day after Royal Assent, except for section 2 (which provides for nine Commissioners), which comes into force three months after Royal Assent.
49.Section 29 provides that the short title is the Pow of Inchaffray Drainage Commission (Scotland) Act 2019.