Section 29Part 6 — Improvements
Description of improvements authorised by law
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Improvements authorised by this Law are the making or execution on, or in connection with, and for the benefit of settled land, of any of the following works, or of any works for any of the following purposes, and any operation incident to or necessary or proper in the execution of any of those works, or necessary or proper for carrying into effect any of those purposes, or for securing the full benefit of any of those works or purposes, namely —
drainage, including the straightening, widening or deepening of drains, streams and water-courses;
irrigation and warping;
drains, pipes and machinery for supply and distribution of sewage as manure;
embanking or weiring from a river or lake, or from the sea or a tidal water;
groynes; sea walls; defences against water;
inclosing; straightening of fences; re-division of fields;
reclamation; dry warping;
farm and plantation roads; private roads, roads or streets in villages or towns;
clearing; trenching; planting;
cottages for labourers, farm and plantation servants, and artisans, employed on the settled land or not;
plantation buildings, farm houses, offices and outbuildings and other buildings, for plantation and farm purposes;
saw-mills, scutch-mills, sugar mills, coffee mills and other mills, water-wheels, engine-houses and kilns, which will increase the value of the settled land for agricultural purposes or as sugar and rum works or coffee or other works, or as woodland or otherwise;
reservoirs, tanks, conduits, watercourses, pipes, wells, ponds, shafts, dams, weirs, sluices and other works and machinery for supply and distribution of water for agricultural, manufacturing or other purposes, or for domestic or other consumption;
tramways, railways, canals and docks;
jetties, piers and landing places on rivers, lakes, the sea or tidal waters, for facilitating transport of persons and of agricultural stock and produce, and of manure and other things required for agricultural purposes and of minerals and of things required for mining purposes;
markets and market-places;
streets, roads, paths, squares, gardens or other open spaces for the use, gratuitously or on payment, of the public or of individuals, or for dedication to the public, the same being necessary or proper in connection with the conversion of land into building land;
sewers, drains, watercourses, pipe-making, fencing, paving, brick-making, tile-making and other works necessary or proper in connection with any of the objects aforesaid;
trial pits for mines, and other preliminary works necessary or proper in connection with development of mines;
reconstruction, enlargement or improvement of any of those works;
bridges;
additions to or alterations in buildings reasonably necessary or proper to enable the same to be let; and
erection of buildings in substitution for buildings within an urban sanitary district taken by a local or other public authority, or for buildings taken under compulsory powers, but so that no more money shall be expended than the amount received for the buildings taken and the site thereof.