Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Composition of offences. - '[(1) Any canal Officer may accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he had committed an offence punishable under this Act or the rules made there under a sum of money not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupee, for composition of such offence. (2) On payment of such sum of money the suspected person, if in custody shall be discharged, and no further proceedings shall be taken against him In regard to the offence so compounded, (3) Rules may be made under this Act regulating the Procedure of canal officers in compounding offences. 100, Repeals and savings. - (1) The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873, is hereby repealed in its application to the Madhya Pradesh. (2) The Central provinces Canal Management Act, 1919 and the Central Provinces Canal Management (Amendment) Act, 1923, are hereby repealed. (3) But changes created, powers vested, rules, orders, appointments, agreements and contracts made, and suits Instituted and proceedings taken under any of the said Act shall, as far as may be, deemed to have been respectively duly created, vested, made, Instituted and taken under this Act.