Jersey Law 11/1986
ROADS (DRAINAGE) (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) LAW, 1986
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A LAW to
amend the Roads (Drainage) Law, 1962, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in
Council of the
26th day of MARCH,
1986
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(Registered on the 8th day of May, 1986).
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STATES OF JERSEY
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The 18th day of June,
1985.
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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of
Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –
ARTICLE
1
In Article 2 of the Roads (Drainage) (Jersey) Law, 1962, after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the
following paragraphs –
“(1A) Where
for the purpose of draining a road administered by it or of otherwise
preventing surface water from flowing on to such road, the highway authority
proposes –
(a) to
construct or lay in land adjoining or lying near to the road, any ditches,
gutters, drains, watercourses, bridges, culverts, tunnels or pipes; or
(b) to
erect barriers in such land to divert surface water into or through any
existing ditch, gutter, drain, watercourse, bridge, culvert, tunnel or pipe,
the highway authority shall serve notice of its intention to do so
on every owner, lessee and occupier of that land, and such notice shall contain
a sufficient description of the land, and shall specify the proposed site of
–
(i) the
work to be constructed or laid in the land under sub-paragraph (a) of this
paragraph; or
(ii) the
barrier to be erected in such land under sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph;
and
(iii) refer
to the powers of the highway authority set ou in
sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1) of this Article.
(1B) The
highway authority shall, as soon as may be after the notice under paragraph
(1A) of this Article has been served, make application to the Inferior Number
of the Royal Court for an order that the notice be registered in the Public
Registry of Contracts and such registration shall constitute public notice of
the proposal of the highway authority to do in that land such of the things set
out in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph (1) of this Article as are
specified or referred to in the notice.”.
ARTICLE
2
This Law may be cited as the Roads (Drainage) (Amendment) (Jersey)
Law, 1986.
E.J.M. POTTER
Greffier of the States.