The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act

Liability when person using unauthorisedly cannot be identified

Liability when water runs to waste

Charges recoverable in addition to penalties

Charge on occupier for water, how determined

“Owner‟s rate”

Amount of owner‟s rate

Owner‟s rate, when not chargeable

When occupier is -to pay both owner‟s rate and occupier‟s rate

Power to make rules for apportioning owner‟s rate

When owner is to pay „owner‟s rate

Effect of introduction of canal-irrigation on landlord‟s right to enhance

Water-rate by whom payable, when charged on land held by several owners


OF WATER-RATES


If water supplied through a water-course be
suffered to run to waste, and if, after enquiry by the Divisional Canal-officer, the person
through whose act or neglect such water was suffered to run to waste cannot be discovered, all
the persons chargeable in respect of the water supplied through such water-course shall be
jointly liable for the charges made in respect of the water so wasted.

LAWGIST

# 34 Liability when water runs to waste