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Section 37: Land deriving benefit from percolation liable to water-rate

Irrigation Rules 1975Union territory Rules of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu · 1973

If it appears to a Canal-Officer duly empowered by the Government in this behalf to enforce the Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 719 – Irrigation Act and Rules provisions of this section that any cultivated land within two hundered metres of any canal receives, by percolation or leakage from such canal, an advantage equivalent to that which would be given by a direct supply of canal water for irrigation, or that any cultivated land, wherever situated, derives by a surface flow, or by means of a well sunk within two hundred metres of any canal after the admission of water into such canal, a supply of water which has percolated or leaked from such canal, he may charge on such land a water-rate not exceeding that which would ordinarily have been charged for a similar direct supply to land similarly cultivated.

Explanation.— For the purpose of this Act, land charged under this section shall be deemed to be land irrigated from a canal.

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ActIrrigation Rules 1975
Section37
Marginal noteLand deriving benefit from percolation liable to water-rate
JurisdictionUnion territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
StatusIn force as published by the source

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