The Goa Irrigation Act, 1973State Act of Goa · Act 18 of 1973
In every Second-class Canal, the following repairs shall be performed by the persons on whom the obligation to perform them is imposed by section 70, namely:—
(1) the filling up gullies, rut, and holes, especially at the back of revetment and all petty repairs of a like nature essential for the safety of bunds, tanks, channel banks, or other portions of the said Second-class Canal;
(2) The prevention of the growth on such canal of prickly pear, young trees and other vegetation endangering the safety or concealing the conditions of such canal;
(3) the preservation of such bushes and grasses as have been planted for the protection of the interior water slopes of such canal;
(4) the clearance of silt from sluices, supply and distributing channels;
(5) the clearance of waste weirs and waste channels.