Paragraph 11

For subsection (2) of section thirty-one (which enables a drainage board to authorise their clerk to institute, carry on or defend proceedings in relation to drainage rates) there shall be substituted the following subsection :—

“(2)

A drainage board may by resolution authorise any member -or officer of the board, either generally or in respect of particular proceedings, to institute or defend on their behalf proceedings in relation to a drainage rate or to appear on their behalf, notwithstanding that he is not qualified to act as a solicitor, in any proceedings 'before a court of summary jurisdiction for the issue of a warrant of distress for failure to pay a drainage rate.”