(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
(i) "Irrigation Officer" means an Officer appointed under this Act to exercise control or jurisdiction over an irrigation or drainage work or works;
"Superintending Irrigation Officer" means an officer appointed under this Act to exercise control over irrigation and drainage works in a circle constituted under section 4;
"Divisional Irrigation Officer" means an Officer appointed under this Act to exercise control over irrigation and drainage works in a division constituted under section 4; "Sub - Divisional Irrigation Officer" means an Officer appointed under this Act to exercise control over all irrigation and drainage works in a sub division constituted under section 4;
(ii) "Irrigation works" means a work or system of works, natural or artificial, not being a minor irrigation work as defined in section 2 of the Rajasthan Minor Irrigation Works Act, 1953, and includes-
(a) any canal, channel, pipe or reservoir constructed, maintained or controlled by the State Government for the supply or storage of water,
(b) any work, embankment, structure or supply and escape channel connected with such canal, channel, pipe or reservoir,
(c) any water course,
(d) any part of a river, stream, lake or natural collection of water or natural drainage channel to which the State Government applies the provisions of Part II of this Act;
(iii) "drainage work" includes escape channels from a canal, dams, weirs, embankments, sluices, groins and other works for the protection of lands from flood or from erosion, but does not include works for the removal of sewage from towns;
(iv) "water course" means any channel, not maintained at the cost of Government, which is supplied with water from a canal, channel, pipe or reservoir and includes any subsidiary work belonging to such channel;
(v) "outlet" means an opening constructed in a canal through which water passes into a water course or directly on to any land.
(2) The provision of the General Clauses Act, 1897, of the Central Legislature, shall mutatis mutandis apply, so far as may be, to this Act in the same manner as they apply to a Central Act.