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East Sussex River Board RIVER BOARDS ACT, 1948 LAND DRAINAGE ACT, 1930 LAND DRAINAGE BYELAWS Internal Drainage Districts LAND DRAINAGE ACT, 1930 BYELAWS The East Sussex River Board acting as the Internal Boards for the River Cuckmere and the Pevensey Levels Internal Drainage Districts and as the Commissioners ofSewers for Lewes and Laughton Levels Drainage District by virtue of three Orders (a) made under Section 11 of the Land Drainage Act 1930, as applied by Section 4 of the River Boards Act, 1948, in exercise of the powers vested in them by Section 47 of the Land Drainage Act, 1930, do make the following byelaws which they consider necessary for securing the efficient working of the drainage systems in the three aforesaid Internal Drainage District:- DATE OF COMMENCEMENT 1. These Byelaws shall come into operation immediately after the same are confirmed by the Minister. APPLICATION 2. These byelaws shall be applicable to all watercourses and the banks thereof and to other works for the time being and from time to time vested in or controlled by the Board, except that Byelaws No. 3 and No. 10 shall also The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries HEREBY CONFIRMS these apply to all such watercourses and the banks thereof and other works as are Byelaws situated within the Internal Drainage Districts but are not under the control of the Board. IN WITNESS whereof the Official Seal of the CONTROL OF SLUICES, Etc. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries is hereunto 3. Any person having control of any valve, sluice, flood-gate, lock, weir, affixed this first day of January nineteen hundred dam, pump, pumping machinery, or any other structure or appliance by and fifty three which the flow of water in, into or out of any watercourse or the drawing of water from or delivering of water into any watercourse is controlled or (Sgd) Hugh Gardner, regulated shall:- (i) maintain such valve, sluice, flood-gate, lock, weir, dam, pump, Assistant Secretary pumping machinery, or any other structure or appliance in a proper state of repair and efficiency to the satisfaction of the Board; (ii) use such valve, sluice, flood-gate, lock, weir, dam, pump, pumping machinery, or any other structure or appliance in accordance with such reasonable directions as may from time to time be given by the Board with a view to the prevention of flooding or shortage in the flow or supply of water and to the efficient working of the drainage system of the Internal Drainage Districts. (a) (i) River Cuckmere Catchment Board (Transfer of Powers of the River Cuckmere Drainage Board) Order, 1932 16 17 (ii) River Ouse (Sussex) Catchment Board (Transfer of Powers of CUTIING OF TREES, Etc. the Commissioners of Sewers for the Levels of Lewes and Laughton) Order, 1939; 10. The occupier ofland through which a watercourse flows or ofland abutting on any watercourse or the person having control of any watercourse shall (iii) Old Haven (Pevensey) and Bulverhythe Stream Catchment upon being required by the Board by notice in writing within such Board(Transfer of Powers of the Pevensey Levels Internal reasonable time as may be therein specified cut all trees, willows, shrubs, Drainage Board) Order, 1932. weeds, grasses, reeds, rushes, or other vegetable growths growing in or into the watercourse. DIVERSION OF WATER 4. No person shall without the previous consent of the Board divert or alter the DAMAGE BY ANIMALS · level of or direction of the flow of water in, into or out of any watercourse. 11. All persons using or causing or permitting to be used any bank of any watercourse for the purpose of grazing or keeping any animal thereon shall TAK.ING AND ADDING OF WATER take such steps as are necessary and reasonably practicable to prevent the 5. No person shall without the previous consent of the Board put any water bank or the channel of the watercourse from being damaged by such use. into or take water from any watercourse for any purpose not being a Provided that nothino in this Byelaw shall be deemed to affect or prevent purpose for which he would subject to the provisions of the Act be lawfully the use of any bank the purpose of enabling stock to drink at any place entitled so to do whether as the owner or occupier of riparian land or f~r otherwise. to be made or constructed as may be approved by the Board. DRIVING OF VEIIlCLES, Etc. TIPPING OF RUBBISH, Etc. 12. No person shall use or drive or permit or cause to be used or driven any cart 6. No person shall discharge or put or cause or permit to be put or negligently or vehicle of any kind whatsoever on, over or along any bank of any or wilfully cause or permit to fall into any watercourse any tree, tree trunk watercourse in such a manner as to cause damage to or endanger the or branch or part of any tree, timber, wrack, debris, willows, shrubs, stability of such bank. weeds, grasses, reeds, rushes, gravel, stones, earth, mud, ashes, dirt, soil, rubbish, vegetable growths or any other object or matter whatsoever PROIIlBITION OF ERECTION OF STRUCTURES whether solid or liquid so as to obstruct the flow of water in, into or out of any watercourse. 13. No person shall without the previous consent of the Board: (a) erect or construct or cause or permit to be erected or constructed any RUBBISH, Etc., NEAR THE RIVER fence, post, pylon, wall, wharf, jetty, quay, pier, piling, groyne, revetment, winch, winch platform or drainage work or any other 7. No person shall place any such object matter or thing as is referred to in the building or structure whatsoever in any watercourse or in or on any last foregoing byelaw in proximity to any watercourse in such a manner as bank thereof; to render the same liable to drift into any watercourse in time of flood. (b) make or cut or cause or permit to be made or cut any excavation or any SUNKEN VESSELS tunnel or any drain, culvert or other passage for water in, into or out 8. No person who is the owner of any sunken vessel, or in the case ofa sunken of any watercourse or in or though any bank of any watercourse; vessel which is abandoned who was the owner immediately before the (c) Place or affix or cause or permit to be placed or affixed any gas or abandonment, shall, after receipt of notice from the Board that the vessel watermain or other pipe whatsoever or any wire or any electric main is causing obstruction permit that vessel to remain in any watercourse in or cable or any supports in respect thereof in or over any watercourse, such a manner as to impede or harmfully divert the flow of water in, into or in, over or through any bank of any watercourse; or out of any watercourse. (d) place any structure, building, machinery, pole or pylon, ma~t, ~tay, plant, winch, winch platform or drainage work on, ov~r ?r w1thm 20 PLANTING OF TREES, Etc. feet of the foot of any bank on the landward side or w1thm 16 feet of 9. No person shall without the previous consent of the Board plant any tree, the brink of any depth ditch pertaining to such bank or where there is shrub, willow or other growth within twenty feet of the foot of any bank on no bank within 16 feet of the brink of any watercourse. the landward side or within sixteen feet of the brink of any delph ditch pertaining to such bank or where there is no bank within sixteen feet of the Provided that the Board in granting any such consent may impose such brink of any watercourse. terms and conditions as are in their opinion necessary to secure the efficient working of the drainage systems of the Internal Drainage Districts. 18 19 DREDGING, Etc. 14. No person shall remove dredge or raise or take or cause or permit to be TRESPASS removed, dredged or raised or take any gravel, sand, ballast, clay or other 19. No unauthorised person shall enter upon any land belonging to or in the material from the bed or bank of any watercourse or from any drainage occupation of the Board if such entry is likely to endange~ any per~~n. or work except with the consent of the Board which consent may be given property and there is displayed on or near the land a notice proh1b1tmg absolutely or subject to conditions. entry. STACKING OF MATERIALS, Etc. DAMAGE TO BOARD'S PROPERTY 15. No person shall use or cause or permit to be used any bank of any 20. No person shall interfere with or damage any bank or bridge or building or watercourse or any drainage work for the purpose of depositing or stacking any structure or appliance or any other property of the Board whatsoever. or storing or keeping any rubbish or goods or any material or things thereon in such manner as by reason of the weight, volume or nature of DAMAGE TO NOTICE BOARDS such rubbish, goods, material or things to cause damage to or endanger the 21. No person shall deface or remove any notice board or notice placard put up stability of the bank or interfere with the right of the Board to deposit spoil by the Board. on the bank. OBSTRUCTION OF OFFICERS INJURIOUS ACTS TO BANKS 22. No person shall obstruct or interfere with any officer or agent or servant of 16.