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(1) Every water-rate leviable or charged under this Act shall be Payment and pavable in such installments and on such dates and to such officers and in recovery of water uh manner as may be prescribed; and if the person who is liable to pay and other such installments, makes default in such payment on the date when it becomes due, be shall be liable to pay interest at such rate and within such period as may be prescribed. (2) Any such rate of the installment specified in sub-section (1) or the interest which is not paid on the date when it becomes due shall be deemed to be an arrear of land revenue due on account of the land for the use of which canal-water was supplied or wllich was benefited by percolation or leakage from any canal and shall be recoverable as such arrear by any of Born. v or 1879. the methods specified in section 150 of the Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879, including the forfeiture of the said land. (3) Any rent payable to the owner of a field-channel by a person authorised to use such field-channel may be paid in such installments and on such dates as the canal-officer shall direct and no more of such rent shall at any time be payable to the owner thereof than it is actually recovered from the person liable to pay. d 6-12 (4) (a) Any other sum due to the State Govern.ment or to a canal'-off-icer under the provisioIs of this Act whether on behalf of the State Govermneut or any otber person ulIder this Act which is not paid when demanded shall, and (b) aly rent or installment thereof payable to the owner of a field-cllannel, w`ilicll is not paid when it becomes due may, on behalf of the owncr, be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue in accordance with the Bow` V of 1879' pl.OviSiOnS of the Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879. CHAPTER VII OFENCES AND PENALTIES Whoever voluntarily and without proper authority- Penalty for damaging canal, etc. -