{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1976/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1976/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/70",
  "legislation_title": "Land Drainage Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1976",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to land drainage.\n[15th November 1976]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/593, reg. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "The base date version of this Act is as revised to 1.12.1991 and takes into account the effects (if any) on it of consolidating legislation which came into force at that date"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended by S.I. 1986/208 art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 136(7), 137(10) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act amended by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 136, Sch. 15 para. 1(4), Sch. 26 para. 38 (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Certain functions of a Minister of the Crown under any provisions of this Act transferred (1.9.1989) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 136, Sch. 15 para. 1(2) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "By Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 136, Sch. 15 para. 1(1) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(4), 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58) it is provided that, subject as mentioned therein,(a) for any reference in this Act (however framed) to any one or more water authorities there shall be substituted a reference to the National Rivers Authority;(b) for any reference in this Act to a regional land drainage committee there shall be substituted a reference to a regional flood defence committee;(c) for any reference in this Act to a local land drainage scheme there shall be substituted a reference to a local flood defence scheme;(d) for any reference in this Act to a local land drainage committee there shall be substituted a reference to a local flood defence committee; and(e) for any reference in this Act to a local land drainage district there shall be substituted a reference to a local flood defence district."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Functions of water authorities by virtue of any scheme or order made under this Act transferred subject to the provisions of this Act by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 136, Sch. 15 para. 1(3) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Act saved by S.I. 1991/1619, art. 12 (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Definition of \"watercourse\" in this Act applied (26.7.1991) by S.I. 1991/1760, art. 2(1)Definition of \"watercourse\" in this Act applied (28.9.1991) by S.I. 1991/2210, art. 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent but wholly in force at 17.1.1977 (being the appointed day for the coming into force of the Land Drainage (Amendment) Act 1976, see s. 118(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/70/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}