# Land Drainage Act 1961, Paragraph 12


For subsection (1) of section thirty-two (which enables a local authority to contribute, in certain circumstances, to the expenses of drainage works) there shall be substituted the following subsection :—
“(1) A local authority may contribute, or undertake to contribute, to the expenses of the execution or maintenance of any drainage works by a drainage authority such an amount as, having regard to the public benefit to be derived therefrom, appears to the local authority to be proper.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/48/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1961/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-12
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