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If for any reason there is, in any season, a total or partial failure of crops in any land in the notified area, the State Government may, grant total or partial exemption from the water rate to the owner or occupier of such land as the case may be. Assess- 7. (1) As soon as possible after the notification under moot. sub-section (3) of section 4, imposing a water rate is published, the Collector shall make a preliminary assessment of the rate for the kharif season or for the rabi season in respect of all lands included in the notified area .and shall cause notices of such preliminaryassessment to be served on all persons liable to pay the water rate specifying therein the period within which objections to the assessment may be preferred. (2) On the expiry of the period specified in the notice under sub-section (I), the Collector shall, after considering objections, if any, received by him during such period, make a final assess- ment of the rate for the kharif season or the rabi season which shall be payable annually so long as the notification under clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 4 remains in force. The Collector shall cause a notice of demand to be served on every person by whom the water rate is payable according to such assessment requiring him to pay the water rate for the year mentioned in the notice of demand for the kharif season or the rabi season, as the case may be, by such date as may be specified in the notice of demand not being earlier than one month after the service of such notice: Provided that such notice of demand shall, if it cannot be served for any reason within the year to which the demand relates, be served as soon thereafter as possible. (3) Every person who makes payment of water rate by the specified date shall be entitled to a rebate of five per centum of the amount of the water rate. (4) Subject to the provisions of section 8, if any amount of the water rate due from any person is not paid by the date specified in the notice of demand, interest at such rate not exceeding six and a quarter per cent. per annum as the State- Government may fix from time to time shall be payable thereon from the date of the default. Appeal. $. Any person may, within thirty days from the date of service on him of a notice of demand under sub-section (2) of section 7, appeal to such appellate authority as may be pre- scribed by rules made under this Act either regarding his liability to pay the water rate or the amount assessed and the- decision of the appellate authority in such appeal shall be final_ The West Bengal Irrigation (Imposition of water rate for Damodar Valley Corporation Water) Act, 1958. XXVI of 1958.] (Sections 9, 10.)