Land Drainage Act 1908
The powers and duties delegated are those of the Council as a “local authority” or as the Board of Trustees for a district constituted under the Act (“the Board”), as specified.
| Section | Summary of Function or Power | Delegated Officers |
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| s17 | Powers and duties (as Board) in relation to executing the maintenance/alteration /construction etc of drains and watercourses. |
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| s18 | Power (as Board) to enter land to survey, inspect and dig/bore, open/raise floodgates etc, all as specified; |
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| s19 | Power (as Board) to carry away earth/ materials subject to duty to pay reasonable compensation for damage done as agreed or ascertained by the District Court. Restriction: Subject also to General Delegations – Legal Proceedings |
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| s20 | Duty (as Board) to give prescribed notice to controlling local authority before interfering with any road or footpath. |
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| s21 | Duties (as Board) in relation to carrying out work through private land. |
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| s25 | Duties (as Board) re maintaining and keeping drains and watercourses clear and clean and re failure to do so. |
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| s26 | Power (as Board) to remake branch drains and recover associated costs from offender.
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| s27 | Powers and duties (as Board) in relation to the removal of any tree that is likely to obstruct or damage drain; recovery of costs of removal. |
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| s28 | Duties (as Board), if notified of likelihood of injury or that any bank, dam etc is deficient to take reasonable precautions/pay damages as specified. |
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| ss29 30 | Duty (as Board) to pay compensation for land or water used or damaged etc, by maintenance of any works as agreed or ascertained by the Court. |
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| s61 | Powers (as Board) under Part 1 of the Act in regard to the cleansing, repairing, or maintaining of watercourses or drains etc. |
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| ss62-63 | Powers and duties (as local authority) in relation to the removal of obstructions from a watercourse or drain. |
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| s63A | Powers and duties (as local authority) in relation to making advances to owner of land to enable works specified to be carried out; to enter into agreements to do such works itself; re repayments, etc. |
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| ss64-65 | Duties (as local authority) re undertaking the care, control and management of drainage works as specified. |
Manager Delivery Sustainability & Infrastructure Manager Property Manager Three Waters Principal Operations Engineer Drainage Network Supervisor Network Planning Engineer Planning Engineer - Network Modelling Three Waters Network Manager Water Network Supervisor |