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Article 5 Maintenance of drainage worksI1

England and Wales

(1)

Nothing in this Order, or the construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised development under it, affects any responsibility for the maintenance of any works connected with the drainage of land, whether that responsibility is imposed or allocated by or under any enactment, or otherwise, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the undertaker and the person responsible.

(2)

In this article “drainage” has the same meaning as in section 72 (interpretation) of the Land Drainage Act 1991 M1.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

1991 c. 59. The definition was substituted by section 100(2) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25).

Commencement

I1

Art. 5 in force at 18.6.2020, see art. 1