(1) If, in the opinion of a Canal Officer duly empowered in that behalf, the holders and occupiers, under an irrigation agreement, fail to maintain their field-channels, then provisions of section 31 shall apply as they apply in relation to a field-channel under that section. If the holders and occupiers fail to maintain their field-channels on two or more such occasions, the Canal Officer duly empowered in this behalf may, at any time after giving notice, cancel, with the previous approval of the Appropriate Authority, the irrigation agreement.
(2) An order of the Canal Officer under this section shall be in writing and shall be published in some prominent place in the village or in any specified area concerned and shall be proclaimed by beat of drum;
and thereupon the irrigation agreement shall cease to have effect.
71. With the previous sanction of the Appropriate Authority, a Canal Officer duly empowered in this behalf may at any time cancel any irrigation agreement and in such case, the compensation for damages in respect of any land under agreement shall be equal to the amount of the canal revenue which would have been payable in respect of such land for the remainder of the period of the agreement. The distribution and payment of such compensation shall be made according to rules made under section 114.
Cancellation of agreement by mutual consent.
Cancellation of agreement for failure to maintain fieldchannels.
General power to cancel agreement.
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