Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845

XXV The Company from Time to Time to submit to the Drainage Commissioners in Ireland Plans, &c. of the Portion of the Railway which they are about to execute.

If the Special Act shall authorize the Construction of a Railway in Ireland, the Company shall and they are hereby required from Time to Time, before proceeding to construct any Portion of the Railway, to submit to the Commissioners acting in execution of the said Act of the Sixth Year of Her present Majesty, or any Act amending the same, such Plans, Sections, and Surveys as shall be necessary to enable the said Commissioners to decide upon the Number and Adequacy of the Waterways of all Bridges, Culverts, Tunnels, Watercourses, and other Works across the Line of such Portion as aforesaid of the Railway for the free and uninterrupted Discharge of the Waters from all Lands crossed by or lying on either Side of or near the Railway, at such Level as shall in the Opinion of the said Commissioners be sufficient for the present and prospective Drainage and Improvement of such Lands, and (in Cases of Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries, or Watercourses, which are now or may be capable of being made navigable,) upon the Height and Adequacy of all Bridges and Works crossing the same, for the commodious Navigation thereof.