Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where there do not exist water courses in the service area at the time when irrigation management of the minor canal is entrusted to the Association, the Association shall construct the water courses in the service area. (2) For the purpose of construction of water courses by the Association, the Competent Authority shall prepare a draft scheme for construction of water courses in the service area and for that purpose, the provisions of sub- section (2) of section 20A and sections 20B to 23 of the Bombay Irrigation Act, 1879 shall, so far as may be, apply as if— (a) for the words “field channel” wherever they occur, the words “water course” had been substituted; (b) in clause (vi) of sub-section (2) of section 20A, for the words “the canal to this land” appearing at the end, the words “from the outlet of the entrusted minor canal” had been substituted, Entrustment of irrigation management to Association. Construction of water courses by Association. Bom. VII of