LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1918.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE (ss. 1, 2 (3), 7 (1)).

PART I.-PROCEDURE FOR MAKING ORDERS.

(1) Before making an order the Board shall cause notice of the intention to make the order and of the place where copies of the draft order may be inspected and obtained, and of the time within and manner in which objections to the draft order may be made, to be published in the London Gazette and in such other manner as they think best adapted for informing persons affected, and to be sent to the councilof every county or county borough in which any part of the area proposed to be affected by the order is situate and to every drainage authority or navigation authority which is known to the Board to be exercising jurisdiction within the area. proposed to be affected by the order.

(2) Before making an order the Board shall consider any objections which may be duly made to the draft order and may in any case cause a public local inquiry to be held with respect to any objections to the draft order.

(3) After an order has been settled and made by the Board it shall be published in such a manner as they think best adapted for iuforming persons affected with notice that the Board have settled the order, and that the order will become final and have effect as an Act of Parliament unless within such period, not being less than thirty days as may be stated in the notice, a memorial is presented to the Board by some person or body affected by the order and having such interest as may be prescribed as being sufficient for the purpose praying that the order shall not become law without confirmation by Parliament.

(4) If no such memorial has been presented within such period as aforesaid or if every such memorial has been withdrawn, the Board shall confirm the order and the order shall thereupon have effect as if enacted in this Act, but if any such memorial has been presented and has not been withdrawn the order shall be provisional only and shall have no effect unless and until confirmed by Parliament.

PART II.-PROVISIONAL ORDERS.

(1) The Board may submit to Parliament for confirmation any provisional order made by them in pursuance of this Act.

(2) If, while the Bill confirming any such order is pending in either House of Parliament, a petition is presented against any order comprised therein, the Bill, so far as it relates to such order, may be referred to a Select Committee, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of Private Bills.

(3) The Board may revoke, either wholly or partially, any provisional order made by them before the order is confirmed by Parliament, but such revocation shall not. be made whilst the Bill confirming the order is pending in either House of Parliament.

PART III-GENERAL.

(1) The making and confirmation of an order shall be primâ facie evidence that all the requirements of this Act in respect of proceedings required to be taken previously to the making and confirmation of such order have respectively been complied with.

(2) The Board may make regulations in relation to the publication of notices and advertisements under this Schedule and to the holding of and procedure at public local inquiries under this Schedule and to any other matters of procedure respecting the making of orders under this Act.

8 & 9 GEORGE 5, CHAPTER 17.

SECOND SCHEDULE (s. 14).

PART I-AMENDMENTS OF THE LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1861.

Section Amended.

Amendment.

Section 29

Section 38

Section 34.

Section 47.

Section 67.

Section 71.

After "one thousand pounds" there shall be inserted "or an amount equal to one pound for each acre in the area within which a rate will require to be levied to meet the expenditure involved, whichever amount is the greater."

At end there shall be inserted "Provided that if the person whose obligation is proposed to be commuted does not assent to the proposed commutation, notice of the proposed commutation and of the time within which objection thereto may be presented shall be given to that person, and before such consent as aforesaid is given to the commutation any objection which is duly presented shall be considered."

There shall be omitted the words "it is made" and the words "nor unless" where they first occur.

After "cease" there shall be inserted "except so far as the provisional order constituting the district may otherwise provide.”

After the words "Part two of this Act and" there shall be inserted the words "the order or."

PART II.-PROVISIONS OF THE LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1861 REPEALED. Section 15, from "sewers" to the end of the section, and sections 59, 63, 64, and 65.

CHAPTER XVIII.

An Act to amend sections eleven and thirty-four of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 and section ten of the Fines Act (Ireland) 1851.

CHAPTER XIX.

[30th July 1918.]

An Act to amend the Law with respect to the qualifications of Deputy Lieutenants.

[30th July 1918.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

:

1. QUALIFICATIONS OF DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS.-(1) So much of the Militia Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 49) as prescribes the qualifications to be possessed by persons appointed to be deputy lieutenants in Great Britain, shall cease to have effect, and after the passing of this Act a person may be appointed to be a deputy lieutenant of a county in Great Britain if he possesses the following qualifications:

(a) He must have a place of residence in the county or within seven miles thereof; (b) He must be shewn to the satisfaction of a Secretary of State to have rendered worthy service as a member of, or in a civil capacity in connection with, His Majesty's naval, military, or air forces.

(2) The Militia Act 1882, so far as it relates to Great Britain, is hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the Schedule to this Act.

2. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Deputy Lieutenants Act 1918.

DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS ACT 1918.

SCHEDULE.

PROVISIONS OF MILITIA ACT 1882 REPEALED.

In subsection (1) of section thirty the words "living within the county and qualified as provided by this Act."

Section thirty-three.

In section thirty-four, subsections (1) and (3), and the words "shall send to the lieutenant of the county a copy of every such description delivered to him, and shall enter any such description on a roll to be kept for that purpose and"

Section thirty-five.

CHAPTER XX.

An Act to suspend the operation of section fifteen of the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1883.

CHAPTER XXI.

[30th July 1918.]

An Act to continue certain Expiring Laws.

[30th July 1918.]

WHEREAS the Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are, in so far as they are in force and are temporary in their duration, limited to expire, as respects the Acts mentioned in Part I: of that Schedule, on the thirty-first day of December nineteen hundred and eighteen, and, as respects the Acts mentioned in Part II. of that Schedule, on the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and nineteen :

And whereas it is expedient to provide for the continuance as in this Act mentioned of those Acts, and of the enactments amending or affecting the same:

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. CONTINUANCE OF ACTS IN SCHEDULE —(1) The Acts mentioned in Part I. of the Schedule to this Act, sball, to the extent specified in column three of that Schedule, be continued until the thirty first day of December nineteen hundred and nineteen, and shall then expire, unless further continued.

(2) The Acts mentioned in Part II. of the Schedule to this Act, shall to the extent specified in column three of that Schedule, be continued until the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and twenty, and shall then expire, unless further continued.

(3) Any unrepealed enactments amending or affecting the enactments continued by this Act shall, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, be continued in like manner, whether they are mentioned in the Schedule to this Act or not.

2. SHORT TITLE-This Act may be c'ted as the Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1918.