{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1991/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1991/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/59",
  "legislation_title": "Land Drainage Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An internal drainage board shall—\n(a) as soon as the accounts of the board have been audited, send a copy of them to the relevant Minister; and\n(b) at the same time, send a copy of the accounts to the appropriate supervisory body and to the council of every county , county borough or London borough in which any part of the board’s district is situated.\n(2) A copy of the audited accounts of an internal drainage board shall be kept at the office of the board and any person who is liable to pay drainage rates in the board’s district shall be entitled, without payment, to inspect and take copies of, or extracts from, that copy.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 337 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2, para. 4(5)(1)(b) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(5), SCh. 11, Pt. II, para. 4(13) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5)); S.I. 1996/396, art.3"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/59/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:37:03.990328+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}