The Internal Drainage Boards (Finance) (Amendment) Regulations 1991
These Regulations amend the Internal Drainage Boards (Finance) Regulations 1990 (“the principal Regulations”) so as to provide as follows:to require internal drainage boards (“the boards”) to raise contributions to the National Rivers Authority by means of drainage rates and special levies (regulation 3);to enable the boards to borrow on the security of special levies, and to require repayment of loans attributable to parts of internal drainage districts out of the income raised in respect of those parts (regulation 3);to require the boards to serve on the occupiers of property liable to drainage rates notice of their determination of annual value in accordance with regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (regulation 5(b));to apply, from 1st April 1993, annual value determined in accordance with regulation 7 of the principal Regulations, as the value of land for the purposes of section 116(2) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (persons qualified to appeal or petition) and paragraphs 1(1) and 23(2) of Schedule 2 to that Act (persons qualified for election to a board and as electors) (regulation 5(c));to make further provision as to the appointment of members of the boards (regulation 7).