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If it appears to a canal-officer- (i) that any cultivated land within two hundred meters of any nd deriving canal receives, by percolation or leakage from such canal, an l-)e j 7 cfit from advantae equ~valent to that which would b inen by a direct " o!atio ~ f;.a,.f)fe 1 - - o paymeat o-i supply of canal-water for Irrigation, or Va`ter rate.- (u") that any cultivated land, wherever situate, derives by a surface..`ffow or by means of a well-sunk within t\vo hundred meters of any canal after the admission of water into such canal, a supply of water which has percolated or leaked from such canal, he may charge on such land a water-fate not exceeding that which would ordinarily have been charged for a similar direct supply to land similarly cultivated. Explanation.- For the purposes of this Act, land charged ullder this section shall be deemed to be land irrigated from a canal.