(1) The Irrigation Record-of-Rights prepared in respect of any Second Class Irrigation Work and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act in any part of the State shall be deemed to be Irrigation Record-of-Rights for such Second Class Irrigation Work and such Irrigation Record-of-Rights may, from time to time, be revised by a Canal Officer duly empowered in this behalf who shall be a Revenue Officer not below the rank of Tahasildar.
(2) For settling the claims of any persons during the course of such revision, the Canal Officer may ascertain the nature of the right from the records of Government and the evidence of any person likely to be acquainted with the same and any other documentary or oral evidence which the parties concerned or their witnesses may produce.
(3) For the purposes of revision under sub-section (1), the Canal Officer may enter by himself or through any officer authorised by him for the purpose upon any land adjacent to any work and may survey, demarcate and make a map of the same.
120. Where a Canal Officer duly empowered in this behalf finds that, having due regard to the maintenance or management of any Second Class Irrigation Work, any right contained in the Irrigation Record-of- Rights cannot continue to be exercised to the extent recorded therein, he shall (subject to such rules as the State Government may from time to time prescribe in this behalf) commute such right wholly or in part either by payment to the holder of such right of a sum of money in lieu thereof, or by the grant of land, or in such other manner as he may think fit; and he shall revise the Irrigation Record-of-Rights accordingly.
121. In the event of the State Government undertaking at their own cost any work whereby the supply of water in any Second Class Irrigation Work is increased beyond the amount of such supply at the time the Irrrigation Record-of-Rights was prepared or revised, the State Government may, without prejudice to any rights so recorded, direct that the right to such surplus water shall vest in the State Government, and shall be applied as the State Government may deem fit; and Irrigation Record-of-Rights shall be revised in accordance with such direction.
122. When any Irrigation Record-of-Rights has been revised under this Part, it shall be published in the language of the residents of the area at the office of the Tahsildar of the taluka in which the work is situated and in every town and village which, in the opinion of the Collector, is affected by such Irrigation Record-of-Rights.
123. An entry made in Irrigation Record-of-Rights shall be relevant as evidence in any dispute as to the matters recorded, and shall be presumed to be true until the contrary is proved or a new entry is lawfully substituted therefor:
Provided that no such entry shall be so construed as to limit any of the powers conferred on the State Government by this Part.
Revision of Irrigation Record-of- Rights.
Commutation of rights.
Power of State Government where works are under taken increasing supply.
Publication of Irrigation Record-of- Rights.
Entries in Irrigation Record-of- Rights to be relevant as evidence.
44 Maharashtra Irrigation Act, 1976 [ 1976 : Mah. XXXVIII