
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Registers of Drainage Boards
Regulations 1968 and shall come into operation on 30th October 1968.
2 

(1) Except in so far
as the context otherwise requires—
(a) any reference
in these regulations to a regulation bearing a number is a reference to the
regulation bearing that number in these regulations; and
(b) any reference
in a regulation to a paragraph bearing a number is a reference to the paragraph
bearing that number in that regulation.
(2) In these regulations
the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively,
that is to say:—
 “the Act” means 
the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act
1968;
 “the Act of 1930” means the Land Drainage Act 1930;

 “the Act of 1961” means the Land Drainage Act 1961;

 “the Act of 1967” means the General Rate Act 1967;

 “agricultural buildings”
 has the meaning assigned to it by section 26(4) of the Act of 1967
;
 “agricultural land” has the meaning assigned to it by section 29
of the Act of 1930;
 “amendment” includes addition;
 “annual value” means annual value for the purposes of drainage rates;
 “annual value adjustment”
, in relation to a hereditament, means 
a determination made by a drainage board pursuant to section 30 of the Act specifying
a new amount as the annual value of the hereditament;
 “annual value decision”
, in relation to a hereditament, means 
a decision by a drainage board pursuant to section 29(2)
of the Act of 1930 which determines the annual value of that hereditament
either by apportionment of another annual value or by determination when the
hereditament is not assessed as mentioned in the said section 29(2);

 “annual value property”
 means a hereditament which falls to
be assessed on the basis of annual value or, where part only of a hereditament
falls to be so assessed, that part;
 “book register” and “card register”
 have the meanings assigned to them respectively
by regulation 5;

 “drainage board” and “drainage
district” have the same meanings
as in the Act of 1930; and, in relation to a drainage board:—“the district”
 means the drainage district for which
the board is the drainage board;“the register”
and 
“the map” mean respectively
the register in respect of the drainage hereditaments in their district and
the map which the board are required by section 35
of the Act to prepare and maintain;“Part” followed
by a number means the part bearing that number of that
register;
 “hereditament” means a hereditament for the purposes of drainage rates;

 “the initial date” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 3;

 “loose-leaf register” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 5;

 “the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
 “ordnance sheet” means a map made under the powers conferred by the Survey (Great Britain)
Acts 1841 to 1870;

 “rateable value apportionment”
, in relation to a hereditament, means 
a determination made by a drainage board pursuant to section 31 of the Act that such
valuation lists as are mentioned in that section shall have effect for the
purposes there mentioned as if the proportion specified in the determination
of the rateable value so specified (being the rateable value shown in the
current valuation list for the rating unit of which the hereditament forms
part) were shown in the list in question as the rateable value for the hereditament;
and in relation to a rateable value apportionment,“the apportioned value”
 means the proportion so specified in
that apportionment;
 “rating area” and “rating
authority” shall be construed in
accordance with section 1(1)
of the Act of 1967;
 “rating unit” means a hereditament for the purposes of general rates;
 “the relative fraction”
 has the meaning assigned to it by section 23 of the Act of 1961
;
 “split rating unit” means a hereditament in relation to which a rateable value apportionment
is in force or, where such an apportionment is in force in relation to part
only of a hereditament, that part; and
 “valuation officer” has the meaning assigned to it by section 115(1)
of the Act of 1967.
(3) A requirement that
a part of the register shall contain certain particulars of a hereditament
shall not preclude the insertion therein of other particulars of that hereditament
or particulars of other hereditaments and a requirement that certain particulars
shall be shown on the map shall not preclude the showing thereon of other
particulars.
(4) A requirement that
a drainage board shall do any thing shall, where no period is specified for
the doing thereof, be treated as a requirement that they shall do it within
the shortest period which is reasonably practicable.
(5) The Interpretation Act 1889
applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation
of an Act of Parliament.
3 

(1) Each drainage board
shall prepare the register in accordance with regulations 4 and 5
and the map in accordance with regulation 6,
so as to show the position of hereditaments in their district at the initial
date, within the following period, that is to say —
(a) in the case of
a drainage board which is in existence on the date on which these regulations
come into operation, the period ending on 31st August 1969;
(b) in the case of
a drainage board which comes into existence at any time after the first-mentioned
date, the shortest period which is reasonably practicable.
(2) The prescription
of any period by paragraph (1) is without prejudice to the power of the Minister
under section 35
of the Act to allow a longer period in any particular case.
(3) In these regulations “the
initial date” in relation to a
drainage board means:—
(a) in a case to which paragraph (1) (a)
applies, the last day of the period within which the board is required to
prepare the register and map, whether the period is prescribed by paragraph
(1) (a) or is a longer period allowed by
the Minister as aforesaid; and
(b) in any
other case, the day on which the preparation of the register and map is completed.

4 

(1) The register of a
drainage board shall, in addition to any other parts prescribed by this regulation,
contain one part, called Part I,
in which, subject to paragraph (3), there shall be inserted particulars of
all annual value properties and split rating units in the district.
(2) The register shall
contain a further part, called Part II,
relating to hereditaments in the district assessed on the rateable value thereof
and, where an order is in force under section 24(6)
of the Act of 1930 dividing the district into sub-districts, a copy of the
order shall be set out at the end of Part II.

(3) The register shall
contain a further part called Part III
where—
(a) an order under section 24(7) of the Act of 1930
is in force exempting any portion of the district from drainage rates, in
which case no particulars of any hereditaments in that portion of the district
need be inserted in Part I;
or
(b) an agreement
has been made pursuant to section 25
of the Act of 1961 between the drainage board and the rating authority for
any area, which is for the time being in force.
5 

(1) The register of a
drainage board:—
(a) shall be either
a book register or a card register;
(b) shall, if a card
register, be kept in a cabinet containing drawers, each drawer having on the
front thereof a card indicating clearly the portions of the register which
it contains.
(2) The register of a
drainage board shall:—
(a) if a book register,
have on the front page a suitable heading as the register of drainage hereditaments
in the district (naming it) maintained by the drainage board (naming them)
under section 35
of the Act and a statement that the register was first prepared on the initial
date (naming it); and
(b) if a card register,
have standing on, or affixed to, the cabinet containing it, a notice containing
matter similar to that required for the front page of a book register.
(3) In Part I the following entries shall
be made in respect of each annual value property in the district:—
(a) a short description
of it,
(b) its total acreage,
and
(c) its annual value
(if any) on the initial date.
(4) The following further
entries shall be made in Part I
in respect of each such annual value property which comprises agricultural
land or agricultural buildings or in respect of which a short description
is insufficient to identify it:—
(a) the number of
every enclosure numbered on the map which is wholly comprised in the property
and the number, preceded by the word “Part”, of every part-enclosure
together with the area of every part-enclosure;
(b) where the ordnance
sheet comprised in the map on which that enclosure or part-enclosure is shown
is an ordnance sheet of the county series, the name of the parish or district
in which that enclosure or part-enclosure is situated; and
(c) where the ordnance
sheet comprised in the map on which that enclosure or part-enclosure is shown
is an ordnance sheet on which the national grid is superimposed, the number
of that sheet.For the purposes of this paragraph “part-enclosure” means, where part only of an enclosure numbered on the map is comprised
in an annual value property, that part.
(5) In Part I the following entries shall
be made in respect of each split rating unit in the district:—
(a) a short description
of it,
(b) the rateable
value in the valuation list in force on the initial date of the rating unit
of which the split rating unit forms part,
(c) the apportioned
value specified in the last rateable value apportionment for the split rating
unit, and
(d) the date of that
apportionment.
(6) Part II shall contain a statement
in the form set out in the Schedule
to these regulations adapted as required in accordance with the notes to the Schedule.
(7) Part III (if the register includes
such a Part) shall contain—
(a) a statement indicating
by reference to the map the portion (if any) of the district which is exempt
from drainage rates by virtue of any order under section 24(7)
of the Act of 1930, and
(b) particulars of
every agreement made between the drainage board and the rating authority for
any area pursuant to section 25
of the Act of 1961 which is for the time being in force.
(8) In these regulations:—

 “book register” means a register, kept in a bound book or on separate sheets contained
in a binder, in which all entries (whether original, additional or substituted)
in respect of any one annual value property and all such entries in respect
of any one split rating unit shall be in sequence;
 “card register” means a register in which all entries (whether original, additional or
substituted) relating to each hereditament in the district of the drainage
board which prepares the register are on a separate sheet or card,
and
 “loose-leaf register”
means either a book register kept on separate sheets
or a card register.
6 

(1) The map of a drainage
board shall consist of such ordnance sheets as are necessary to show the whole
of the district.
(2) Subject to paragraph
(6) the ordnance sheets used by a drainage board in the compilation of the
map shall be on a scale of not less than six inches to one mile.
(3) Where the map consists
of more than one sheet, the sheets shall either—
(a) after any necessary
trimming, be combined to form one sheet; or
(b) be kept together
as separate sheets.
(4) Where the map is
comprised in one sheet, the map and, where it comprises more than one sheet,
each sheet shall have on the front thereof in a conspicuous position a statement
that it is the map, or (as the case may be) one of the sheets comprised in
the map, maintained by the drainage board (naming them) under section 35 of the Act.
(5) Where any hereditament
in the district cannot be identified except by reference to enclosures or
parts of enclosures on the map, and the ordnance sheets used in the compilation
of the map do not indicate by a number any enclosure comprised, or of which
part is comprised in the hereditament, the drainage board shall insert on
the relevant ordnance sheet a number in respect of each such enclosure, but
so that each number so inserted shall be different from the number assigned
to any other enclosure on the map or, where the number is inserted on an ordnance
sheet of the county series, the number assigned to any other enclosure in
the same parish or district.
(6) The map shall show
the external boundary of the district by a line of a distinctive colour, but
the drainage board may, instead of showing it on the ordnance sheets referred
to in paragraph (2), show it on additional ordnance sheets on a scale of less
than six inches to one mile.
(7) Where an order under section 24(7) of the Act of 1930
is in force, the map shall show in a distinctive colour by edging, hatching
or colouring within the boundaries thereof the portion of the district on
the occupiers of hereditaments in which portion the order determines that
no drainage rates shall be levied.
(8) The map shall contain
an appropriate legend explaining the significance of the colours used thereon.

7 
The register and map of a drainage board shall be kept open to
inspection by members of the public at all reasonable times at the office
of the board, the address of which is shown on demands for drainage rates
sent by the board.
8 
Where the boundaries of a drainage district are altered (whether
by the amalgamation of the whole or part of another drainage district with
the district or otherwise), the drainage board shall—
(a) strike through the
particulars in Part I
of the register of the register of every hereditament the whole or part of
which is excluded from the district, and
(b) make such amendments
to the register and map in respect of every new hereditament comprised in
the district as a result of such alteration and in respect of every hereditament
part of which has been excluded as a result of such alteration as would be
necessary to comply with regulation 5
if the initial date had fallen after the date on which the alteration took
place.
9 

(1) This regulation applies
where—
(a) no particulars
of a hereditament are entered in the register of a drainage board, or where
particulars of a hereditament are so entered, but do not include particulars
of its annual value, and
(b) the board subsequently
make an annual value decision in respect of the hereditament.
(2) The drainage board
shall forthwith enter in the register in respect of the hereditament—

(a) in the first
case referred to in paragraph (1) (a) such
particulars as would have been necessary to comply with regulation 5 if the initial date
had fallen after the date on which the decision was made, and
(b) in the second
case particulars of the annual value.
10 
As soon as a drainage board have made an annual value adjustment
in respect of an annual value property particulars of which are entered in
the register, they shall delete any subsisting entry relating to its annual
value which is included in those particulars and shall add to those particulars
the amount determined by the adjustment as the annual value of the property.

11 

(1) As soon as a drainage
board have made a rateable value apportionment in relation to a hereditament
in their district particulars of which are entered in the register as particulars
of an annual value property, they shall make such amendments to the register
as may be necessary to show therein the same particulars of the hereditament
as would have been required if the initial date had fallen after the date
on which the apportionment was made.
(2) Where since particulars of a hereditament have been entered in the register
as particulars of a split rating unit the hereditament has been included in
a rating unit (in this paragraph referred to as “the new rating unit”)
 different from the rating unit particulars of the rateable value
of which are entered in the register in relation to the hereditament, the
drainage board shall, as soon as they receive notice that the hereditament
has been so included, add to the particulars of the hereditament in the register
the rateable value of the new rating unit, adding underneath the words “(R.V. of new rating unit)”, and shall delete
any subsisting entries in the register made pursuant to 
sub-paragraphs (b), (c), or (d) of regulation 5(5).

(3) As soon as a drainage
board have made a new rateable value apportionment in relation to a hereditament
particulars of which are entered in the register as particulars of a split
rating unit, they shall delete the subsisting entries relating to the hereditament
made pursuant to sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) of regulation
5(5) and add to the particulars of the hereditament
entered in the register the apportioned value and the date on which the apportionment
was made.
12 
If a drainage board cancel an annual value decision, an annual
value adjustment or a rateable value apportionment pursuant to section 32 of the Act, they shall
delete the entries in the register relating to the decision or (as the case
may be) the adjustment or the apportionment.
13 

(1) Where an appeal
to a local valuation court against an annual value decision, an annual value
adjustment or a rateable value apportionment made by a drainage board in respect
of a hereditament has been lodged (within the meaning of section 32(6) of the Act), the
drainage board shall insert in red in the register immediately beneath the
particulars of the value the subject of the appeal the words 
“Appeal lodged on” followed by the date of lodgement.

(2) If, when such an
appeal has been finally determined, the amount of the annual value or (as
the case may be) the apportioned value of the hereditament then differs from
the amount of that value shown in the register, the drainage board shall—

(a) in the case
of an appeal against an annual value decision or an annual value adjustment,
add to the particulars of the hereditament in the register particulars of
the amount which has become the annual value of the hereditament, and delete
any subsisting entry of its annual value; and
(b) in the case
of an appeal against a rateable value apportionment, add to the particulars
of the hereditament in the register the amount which has become the apportioned
value of the hereditament and the date on which such new apportioned value
became effective (so describing it), and delete any subsisting entry relating
to the hereditament made pursuant to sub-paragraph (c) or (d) of regulation
5(5).
(3) Where, owing to
the dismissal or abandonment of such an appeal or other circumstances, the
amount of the annual or apportioned value remains that shown in the register,
the drainage board shall enter under the words noting the appeal a brief note
of such dismissal or abandonment or other circumstances.
(4) An appeal shall,
for the purpose of these regulations, be taken to be finally determined on
the occurrence of whichever of the following events last occurs after the
appeal has been lodged, that is to say—
(a) the local valuation
court with which the appeal has been lodged has given a decision on the appeal
and the period within which an appeal may be made against that decision to
the Lands Tribunal expires without any such appeal having been made;
(b) the Lands Tribunal
has given a decision on that appeal and the time within which the Tribunal
may be required to state and sign a case for the decision of the Court of
Appeal with respect to the decision of the Tribunal expires without such a
requirement having been made;
(c) in pursuance
of such a requirement such a case is stated and signed and the Court of Appeal
or, if there is an appeal to the House of Lords, that House, gives a decision
on that case;
(d) the time for
bringing an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal expires without
its having been brought;
(e) the proceedings
on any appeal or case stated referred to in this paragraph are abandoned or
otherwise disposed of without a decision being given on it;
(f) in compliance
with any directions given by any court or tribunal to which an appeal has
been made or for the opinion of which a case has been stated the drainage
board alter or quash the determination.
14 
Whenever a drainage board after the initial date enter in the register
particulars of the annual value of a hereditament, they shall insert underneath
those particulars the words “A.V. on”
followed by the date on which that value became effective.
15 
Where owing to any act or event since the initial date—
(a) the statement set
out in Part II or III
of the register of a drainage board differs from the statement which would
have been set out if the initial date had fallen after that act or event,
the board shall amend Part II
or (as the case may be) Part III
so that it sets out the last-mentioned statement;
(b) the map of the drainage
board shows particulars different from those it would have shown if the initial
date had fallen after that act or event, the board shall amend the map so
as to show thereon the particulars which it would have shown if the initial
date had so fallen and shall delete any particulars which have become incorrect.

16 

(1) All deletions of
existing entries in the register shall be made by striking through those entries.

(2) Every new entry
which supersedes an existing entry, and every deletion of an existing entry,
shall be initialled and dated by the officer of the drainage board making
the same.
17 
A drainage board shall, whenever it is expedient to do so, prepare
a fresh edition of the register or, where the register is a loose-leaf register,
of any sheet or card thereof, showing only particulars of subsisting entries
in the register, and shall indicate on the register or (as the case may be)
the sheet or card thereof the date on which the fresh edition is prepared.

18 

(1) Where the map of
a drainage board is required to be amended by the deletion of any particulars
shown thereon, the drainage board shall, subject to paragraph (2), prepare
a fresh edition of the map, or, where the map comprises more than one sheet,
of any sheet thereof, showing the particulars which would be required to be
shown if the fresh edition were being prepared as the map, or part of the
map, in accordance with regulation 3
and the date of the preparation of the fresh edition were the initial date,
omitting any particulars which have become incorrect, and shall indicate on
the map or (as the case may be) the sheet thereof the date on which the fresh
edition is prepared.
(2) Where the preparation
of a fresh edition of the map or any sheet thereof results in the substitution
of an ordnance sheet of a new edition (whether an edition of the county series
or an edition on which the national grid is superimposed) for an ordnance
sheet of a previous edition, the drainage board shall amend any particulars
entered in the register pursuant to regulation 5(4)
so as to show the particulars which would have been required if the sheet
of the new edition had been used in the preparation of the map pursuant to regulation 6.
(3) Where the amendment
required to be made to the map is trivial, and the expense of preparing for
that purpose a fresh edition of the map, or of any sheet thereof, would not
be justified, the board may prepare a transparent overlay for the map or,
if the map comprises more than one sheet, for any sheet thereof, which shall
indicate clearly the alteration intended to be made to the map or that sheet.

(4) Every such overlay
shall be fastened to the map to which it is an overlay so that the details
thereon coincide with those on the map or sheet, but so that it may be lifted
away to enable either the map or sheet alone, or the map and sheet and any
other overlay fastened thereto, to be inspected.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 18th October 1968.
Cledwyn Hughes
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

SCHEDULE
PART II
All hereditaments other
than those described in Parts I and III
of this Register (a) are hereditaments of which a rateable value is shown
in the valuation lists (b) at present in force and are liable to be assessed
as stated below (c). Hereditaments described in Part I
of this Register of which a rateable value is shown in the valuation lists
(b) are liable to be assessed as stated below (d). The valuation lists for
the following rating authorities may be inspected during office hours at their
offices at the addresses set out below:
Name of Rating Authority Address of Office
(e) (f)

Under section 22(4)
of the Land
Drainage Act 1961 each such hereditament is
assessed to drainage rates on one-third of its rateable value. The amount
per £ at which any drainage rate is assessed in respect of every such
hereditament is determined, as nearly as possible, by applying the relative
fraction referred to in section 23
of that Act subject to any adaptation which may be
necessary under the order made under section 24(6)
of the Land
Drainage Act 1930 
a copy of which is set out at the end of this Part of the Register
(g).

By virtue of that section and a resolution passed
by the Drainage Board under section 1
of the Drainage
Rates Act 1962 each such hereditament is assessed
to rates on a value arrived at by taking one-third of its rateable value and
applying thereto the relative fraction referred to in section 23 of that Act (h). The amount per £ at which any drainage rate is assessed
has to be calculated in accordance with the provisions of the order made under
 section24(6)
of the Land
Drainage Act 1930 
a copy of which is set out at the end of this part of the Register.


The relative fraction as stated in the last notice
of a drainage rate made by the
(i) was (j)

An order has been made under section 24(6) of the Land Drainage Act 1930 dividing the Drainage District into Sub-Districts. Drainage
rates may vary according to the Sub-District in which the hereditament is
situate. A copy of the order is set out at the end of this Part of the Register
 (k).


NOTES
(a) Omit italicised matter where the register
does not contain a Part III.

(b) Omit s
if the district covers only one rating area.
(c) Omit this sentence if hereditaments assessed
on their rateable value are described in Part I
of register.
(d) Omit this sentence if previous sentence
retained.
(e) Insert in this column the name of each
rating authority any part of whose rating area is comprised in the district.

(f) Insert in this column opposite the name
of each rating authority in the left hand column the name of its office where
the valuation list may be inspected.
(g) Omit this sentence if a resolution passed
by the drainage board under section 1
of the Drainage
Rates Act 1962 is in force. Where the sentence
is retained, omit the words in italics where the district is not divided into
sub-districts or where the district is so divided but the order which provides
for the division does not determine the relative amounts of rates in the respective
sub-districts.
(h) Omit this and the following sentence
if no resolution by the drainage board under section 1
of the Drainage
Rates Act 1962 is in force. Where this sentence
is retained, omit the following sentence in italics where the district is
not divided into sub-districts or where the district is so divided but the
order which provides for the division does not determine the relative amounts
of rates in respect of sub-districts.
(i) Insert name of drainage board.
(j) Insert relative fraction as stated in
the last notice of a drainage rate made by the drainage board before the initial
date.
(k) Omit the three sentences in italics in
this paragraph where the district is not divided into sub-districts or, where
it is so divided, the order which provides for the division determines the
relative amounts of rates in the respective sub-districts.
