Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(a) If the Collector is satisfied that the public has no right to use the water of any derelict tank and that such tank is, or when excavated will be, capable of irrigating the adjoining lands, he may, by order in writing, and after serving the same in the prescribed manner, on the owner of the tank, and where the tank is in the occupation of any other occupier not being the owner, also on such occupier, acquire the right of using water of such tank for the purposes of irrigation of the adjoining lands, and on and from the date of such order, such right shall stand transferred to, and vest in, the State Government. (b) After acquisition and vesting as aforesaid, the Collector may make such further orders as may appear to him to be necessary or expedient in connection with, or in relation to, such acquisition.