The appropriate Minister may make grants towards expenditure incurred by internal drainage boards or by other drainage bodies (except the Agencyor the Natural Resources Body for Wales) in the exercise of their functions in carrying out drainage schemes.
Grants under subsection (1) above shall be of such amounts and subject to such conditions as may be approved by the Treasury.
Where a drainage body are about to incur in respect of any work expenditure which, if the work is properly carried out, a grant will be payable under subsection (1) above, the appropriate Minister may, with the approval of the Treasury, make advances to that body on account of the expenditure.
The appropriate Minister may, with the approval of the Treasury, make grants to drainage bodies in respect of expenditure properly incurred by them with a view to
Paragraphs (b) to (d) of subsection (4) above are without prejudice to any power—
which could be made or imposed apart from those paragraphs.
Where a drainage body are about to incur expenditure in respect of which it appears to the appropriate Minister that a grant will be payable under subsection (4) above, he may, with the approval of the Treasury, make advances to the body on account of the expenditure.
The appropriate Minister may, with the approval of the Treasury, make grants to an internal drainage board or a local authority in respect of the cost of any works carried out by the board or authority in pursuance of section 20 above; and the reference to expense in that section shall be construed as excluding the amount of any grant paid under this subsection in respect of the works in question.
The appropriate Minister may, with the approval of the Treasury, make to an internal drainage board grants in respect of expenditure incurred by the board, and advances on account of expenditure to be incurred by the board, in carrying out works for the rebuilding or repair of any bridge maintained by the board, other than works appearing to the appropriate Minister to be maintenance works of a routine kind.
In this section "the appropriate Minister"—