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DRY RIVER ACT

CHAPTER 26:50

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act
26 of 1928

Amended by
45 of 1979

L.R.O.

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Pages Authorised

(inclusive) by L.R.O.
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Note on Subsidiary Legislation

This Chapter contains no subsidiary legislation.

Note on Adaptation
Under paragraph 6 of the Second Schedule to the Law Revision Act (Ch. 3:03) the Commission
amended certain references to public officers in this Chapter. The Minister’s approval of the
amendments was signified by LN 120/1980, but no marginal reference is made to this Notice
where any such amendment is made in the text.

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CHAPTER 26:50

DRY RIVER ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Corporation may enter and construct works.
4. Plans to be deposited.
5. Licences to dig gravel, etc.

Penalty.
6. Protection of Corporation against actions and injunctions.
7. Protection of servants and agents of Corporation.
8. Assault or obstruction.
9. Power to make Bye-laws and Regulations.

10. Penalties—recovery of.
11. Confirmation, publication and commencement of Bye-laws

and Regulations.
12. Payment of cost of works.

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CHAPTER 26:50

DRY RIVER ACT

An Act to authorise the Corporation of Port-of-Spain to
undertake sanitary works in the bed of the Dry River.

[15TH NOVEMBER 1928]

1. This Act may be cited as the Dry River Act.

2. In this Act “Corporation” means the Mayor, Aldermen
and Citizens of the City of Port-of-Spain.

3. The Corporation may, with all necessary workmen and
other servants, at all times enter upon any lands in that portion of
the Dry River which lies between the bridge known as Chaytor’s
Causeway and the sea, and erect or cause to be erected upon any
part of such lands such works as they may consider fit for the
purpose of repairing, making, preserving or maintaining the said
portion of the Dry River as a fit and proper channel for the passage
of surface water to the sea.

4. Plans of such works as may from time to time be authorised
by the Corporation and approved by the Minister for the better
carrying out of the provisions of this Act, shall be made and
deposited in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer of Port-of-
Spain, and shall be open to inspection by any person between the
hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on any week day.

5. (1) No person shall without a licence from the Chief
Executive Officer of Port-of-Spain, dig, win, take or carry away
any sand, stone or gravel from the Dry River at any part of such
river between the bridge on the Belmont Circular Road known as
Chaytor’s Causeway and the sea.

(2) Any person who contravenes this section is liable on
summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

6. No action shall be brought against the Corporation or any
of their authorised servants or agents for anything done in

1950 Ed.
Ch. 39 No. 3.

26 of 1928.
Commencement.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Corporation
may enter and
construct works.

Plans to be
deposited.

Licences to dig
gravel, etc.

Penalty.

Protection of
Corporation
against actions
and injunctions.

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furtherance of the purposes of this Act, and no injunction or order
restraining the execution or maintenance of any of the works
authorised by this Act shall be granted by any Court of Justice.

7. No authorised servant or agent of the Corporation shall be
liable to prosecution for anything done by him bona fide in
furtherance or intended furtherance of any of the purposes of
this Act.

8. Any person who assaults or hinders or obstructs or causes
or procures to hinder or obstruct the Corporation or their agents or
servants or any workman or any person authorised by them or
employed in doing or performing any works by this Act authorised
to be done or performed or in the exercise of any of the powers
and authorities contained in this Act, is liable on summary
conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

9. The Corporation may make Bye-laws and Regulations
for all or any of the following purposes:

(a) for ensuring and regulating the use of the said
portion of the Dry River as a fit and proper
channel for the passage of surface water to
the sea;

(b) empowering such person or persons as they may
appoint to do all such acts and things in, over or
upon the bed of such River as may be deemed
necessary for placing or keeping such River under
proper control;

(c) forbidding absolutely or regulating the drainage
from any public or private sewer or drain into the
said River;

(d) for the prevention of the deposit of filth or rubbish
in the bed or on the banks of the said River
between the limits mentioned above;

(e) for the regulation and maintenance of the said
watercourse in such a manner as to prevent any
nuisance arising therefrom; and

Protection of
servants and
agents of
Corporation.

Assault or
obstruction.

Power to make
Bye-laws and
Regulations.

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(f) generally for the more effective carrying out of
the provisions of this Act.

10. Any person who contravenes any of such Bye-laws or
Regulations is liable on summary conviction to a fine of four
hundred dollars for each offence, and in the case of a continuing
offence to a further fine of one hundred dollars for each day
during which the offence continues after written notice thereof
from the Corporation.

11. (1) Bye-laws and Regulations made by the Corporation
under this Act shall not take effect unless and until they have been
confirmed by the Minister.

(2) All such Bye-laws and Regulations shall, when
confirmed by the Minister be published in the Gazette, with a
statement of the confirmation thereof by the Minister and of the
date on which they shall come into force.

12. Two-thirds of the cost of the works authorised by this Act,
as certified on an account submitted by the Chief Executive Officer
to the Minister on the 31st December in each year during which
the work continues, and approved by such officer as may from
time to time be designated by the Minister, shall be paid from funds
in the hands of the Corporation, and the remaining one-third shall
be paid to the Corporation by the Comptroller of Accounts out of
moneys provided by Parliament.

Penalties—
recovery of.

Confirmation,
publication and
commencement
of Bye-laws and
Regulations.

Payment of
cost of works.
[45 of 1979].

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