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


141. Power to make rules for apportioning owner's rate.--In the case of a tenant with a
right of occupancy, the State Government shall have power to make rules for dividing the
owner's rate between such tenant and his landlord, proportionately to the extent of the
beneficial interest of each in the land.


LAWGIST

# 41 Power to make rules for apportioning owner‟s rate