(a) damages, alters, enlarges, or obstructs any irrigation system;
(b) interferes with, increases, or diminishes the water supply in, or the flow of water from, through, over or under any irrigation system;
(c) being responsible for the maintenance of the irrigation system neglects to take proper precautions for the prevention of wastage of the water thereof or interferes with the authorised distribution of water there from or uses water in an unauthorised manner, or in such manner as to cause damage to the adjacent landholdings;
(d) corrupts or fouls, water of any irrigation system so as to render it less fit for the purposes for which it is ordinarily used;
(e) obstructs or removes any level marks or water gauge or any other mark or sign fixed by the authority of a public servant; and
(f) opens, shuts, or obstructs or attempts to open, shut or obstruct any sluice or outlet or any other similar contrivance in any irrigation system;
Offences and Penalties.
30 [Act No.11 of 1997] 54[(g) violates the Warabandi or the water distribution and regulation schedule made by the Water Users Association or the Distributory Committee or the Project Committee,] shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both.
24. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from being prosecuted and punished under any other law for the time being in force for any act or omission made punishable by or under this Act:
Provided that no person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once.
25. (1) A farmers‟ organisation may accept from any person who committed or in respect of whom a reasonable belief can be inferred that he has committed an offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder, a sum of money not exceeding rupees one thousand by way of composition for such offence.
(2) On payment of such sum of money, the said person, if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceedings shall be taken against him in regard to the offence, so compounded.
CHAPTER - VI Settlement of disputes 55[26. (1) Any dispute or difference touching the constitution, management, powers or functions of a farmers‟ organization arising between members, between a member
54. Inserted by Act No.1 of 1999.
55. Substituted with marginal heading by Act No.7 of 2003.
Punishment under other laws not barred.
Settlement of disputes.
Composition of offences.
[Act No.11 of 1997] 31 and the managing committee of a water users‟ association or between two or more water users‟ associations or between two or more distributory committees or between two or more project committees shall be determined and disposed of in the manner prescribed.]
56[27. Any party to a dispute or difference aggrieved by a decision made or order passed by the managing committee of farmers‟ organization or by a designated officer, as the case may be, may appeal to the authority and such appeals shall be disposed of, in the manner prescribed.]
CHAPTER - VII MISCELLANEOUS