{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1991/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1991/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/59",
  "legislation_title": "Land Drainage Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-act-1991",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Power to require information.",
  "text": "(1) The drainage board for an internal drainage district may serve on the owner of any hereditament in the district in respect of which a drainage rate is levied a notice requiring him to state in writing the name and address of any person known to him as being an occupier of that hereditament.\n(2) A person shall be guilty of an offence under this section if, where a notice is served on him under subsection (1) above, he—\n(a) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the notice; or\n(b) in pursuance of the notice—\n(i) makes any statement in respect of the information required which he knows to be false in a material particular; or\n(ii) recklessly makes any statement in respect of that information which is false in a material particular.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(4) Where—\n(a) a person is convicted of an offence under this section in respect of a failure to comply with a notice; and\n(b) the failure continues after conviction,\nthen, unless he has a reasonable excuse for the continuance of the failure, he shall be guilty of a further offence under this section and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to be punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/59/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:43.533893+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."
}