(1) In case of any accident being apprehended or happening to an irrigation work, any canal oflicer empowered in this behalf may enter upon of into any immovable property in the neighbourhood of such irrigation work or such other immovable property as may may be necessary for the purpose of preventing such accident of repairing any damage done. ‘ '(2) In determining compensation for taking trees and other mate~ rials and princ.ples laid down in section 60 shall. be followed,8. Where any irrigation work is being damaged ordamage ta any ir:igation work is apprehenced due to floods, any Canal Officer duly empowered in this ‘behalt' may, in the interest of the safety of the irrigation work_regulate the floods by operating gates or fgated.
waste weir on the irrigation work or lregulate the Canalas the case" may be.
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9. Where a Canal Officer proposes under the provision of sections 5, 6, or 7 to enter into ‘any building of enclosed court or garden attached 'to a dwelling house. not supplied with water from an irrigation work, and not adjacent to a flood embankment, he ehall give to the occupier of such building, court or garden such reasonable prior notice as the urgenCy of the case will allow.
, 10. Canal Crossings:
(1) There shall be provided at the cost of the State Government suitable means of crossing canals constructed or maintained .at the cost of the State Government at such places as the State Govt. thinks necessary for the reasonable convenience of the inhabitants , of the adjacent lands.
, (2) No suit shall lie in a Civil court against the State Government to enforce the construction of a crossing of a Canal, or to enforce the alterating of a crossing or for compensation for damage arising afrom the absence or inadequacy of any crossing, or to be modified or set aside any scheme frame or ordered passed under this section.
Explanation z—Suitable means of crossing Canals include means "for the passage of traffic and of- water.
11. If the State Government is satisfied that any land for the construction of an irrigation work, excluding water courses, field channels and field drains or for the maintenance, improvement or extension of an existing irrigation Work excluding ‘water courses, field - channels and field drains, is needed, the State Govt. may acquire the land by following the provisions of the land acquisition Act, 1894 (Act 1 of l894) except to_ the extent specifically stated to the contraryrin this chapter.