Bare ActsThe Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Act, 2013

Section 29

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(1) All sums of money payable for compensation awarded under Compensation section 27 shall be due three months after the claim for such compensation when due and was made. interest thereon. I of 1894. 6 - 10 q , . A'. TR RATES . (A) Stq,ply Rates. Rates for supply 30.. (1) The State Goveniinent may deterniine the rates leviable for of c.anal-water' canal-water supplied for pulposes of in'igation, or for other pulposes. ,, (2) In case the construction of a new canal .or to the improvement or extension of an existing canal, the amount or duration of any water-supply, in respect of which either no revenue or a fixed amount of revenue has hitherto been paid .to the State Govermnent, is increased, rates shall be leviable tmder this section in respect of the increased water-supply only. (3) The rates. shall be payable by the person on whose application the -water supply was granted, or by any person who uses the water so supplied. (B) Water rates for unauthorts' ed used and waste of water. - Liability when Person 31. If water supplied tllrough a field-channel be used in an unauthorised using]IX I|| wale manner, and if the person by whose act or neglect such use has occurred ~edent Isey cannot cannot be identified - (i) the person or all the persons on whose land such water has flowed, , . , if sucl` land has ~derived benefit there. from, or , . (ii) if no land has derived benefit therefrom, the person, or all the persons chargeable .in respect of the water supplied tiTrough such field-chalmel, dD,' shall be liable, or jointly liable, as the case may be, for the charges which shall be payable for such use as may be prescribed. Liability when 32. (I) If water supplied tlHough a field-channel be suffered to run to water runs to waste, and if, after inquiry, the person through whose act or neglect such waste' water was suffered to run waste cannot be discovered, the person or the persons in-charge of the water supplied through a field-chamlel shall be liable, or jointly liable, as the case may be, for payment of such charges as may be prescribed which shall be made in respect of the water so wasted. (2) All questions arising under sections 31 and 32 shall, subject to the provisions of section 43, be decided by the respective canal-officer. Charges

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