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In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:- (1) “canal” includes.- (a) all canals, channels and reservoirs constructed, maintained or controlled by the State Government for the supply or storage of water; (b) all works, embankments, structures, including outlets, supply and escape channels connected with such canals, channels or reservoirs; (c) all water-courses; (d) all parts of a river, stream, lake or natural collection of water or natural drainage channel, to which the State Government has applied the provisions of Part II of this Act; Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), DECEMBER 27, 2023 (PAUSA 6, 1945 SAKA) 52 (e) all field drains; (f) all State tubewells; and (g) all drains, works, embankments and structures, connected with drains, maintained or controlled by the State Government; (2) “Canal Officer” means an officer appointed under this Act by the State Government, by notification, to exercise control or jurisdiction over a canal or any part thereof; “Chief Canal Officer” means an officer exercising general control in respect of canals in the State; “Superintending Canal Officer” means an officer exercising general control over a canal or portion of a canal; “Divisional Canal Officer” means an officer exercising control over a division of a canal; “Sub-Divisional Canal Officer” means an officer exercising control over a sub-division of a canal; “Deputy Collector” means any officer appointed to perform the functions of Deputy Collector under this Act; (3) “Collector” means a revenue officer as specified as Collector in the Punjab Land Revenue Act 1887, and includes any other officer appointed under this Act by the State Government, by notification, to exercise all or any of the powers of a Collector; (4) “Commissioner” means a revenue officer as specified as Commissioner in the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, and includes any officer appointed under this Act by the State Government, by notification, to exercise all or any of the powers of a Commissioner; (5) “culturable command area” means that portion of a culturable irrigable area which is commanded by flow or lift irrigation from an irrigation channel, outlet or State tubewell; (6) “district” means a revenue district notified by the Department of Revenue; (7) “drainage work” includes escape channels from canals, dams, weirs, embankments, sluices, groins and other works for the protection of lands from flood or from erosion, formed or maintained by the State Government under the provisions of Part VII of this Act, but does not include works for the PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), DECEMBER 27, 2023 (PAUSA 6, 1945 SAKA) 53 removal of sewage from towns, villages or any other habitat by whatever name it is known.; (8) “field drain” includes drains and other similar works constructed or maintained by land owners themselves; (9) “outlet” means a structure along with its appurtenant works fixed or constructed by the State Government on minor, distributary or branch canal or main canal to receive water from canal and to deliver it to fields through water course; (10) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (11) “shareholder” means a person or tenant as defined in the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887; (12) “State Government” means the Government of the State of Punjab in Department of Water Resources; (13) “State tubewell” means a tubewell hitherto constructed, maintained or controlled or which may be hereafter constructed, maintained or controlled by the State Government or the Punjab Water Resources Management and Development Corporation Limited, and includes all mechanical and electrical appliances, tools and structures appertaining to it and necessary for the abstraction of water from it; (14) “temporary watercourse” means a watercourse which has been supplying canal water and running for a period of not less than six months. but which is not a watercourse as herein defined; (15) “tubewell” means any device for lifting water either from below the surface of the ground or from canal by mechanical means operated otherwise than by human or animal power; (16) “watercourse” means any channel or pipeline including all its subsidiary works which is supplied with water from a canal, but not maintained at the cost of the State Government, and is sanctioned under this Act or is in existence under an agreement or by prescription; (17) “water user” means an individual or body corporate or an association or a group, using water in a command area; (18) “Water Users’ Association” means a body of water users at a particular level of a canal system for flow as well as lift irrigation; and (19) “vessel” includes boats, rafts, timber and other floating bodies. PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), DECEMBER 27, 2023 (PAUSA 6, 1945 SAKA) 54