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


Where a water-rate is charged on land held by several joint owners, it shall be payable by the
manager or other person who receives the rents or profits of such land, and may be deducted
by him from such rents or profits before division, or may be recovered by him from the
persons liable to such rate in the manner customary in the recovery of other charges on such
rents or profits.

LAWGIST

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