LawgistThe Northern India Canal and Drainage Act
33Liability when person using unauthorisedly cannot be identified
If water supplied through a water-course be used in an unauthorised manner, and if the person by whose act or neglect such use has occurred cannot be identified,
the person on whose land such water has flowed if such land has derived benefit therefrom,
or if such person cannot be identified or if such land has not derived benefit therefrom, all the persons chargeable in respect of the water supplied through such water-course, shall be liable, or jointly liable, as the case may be, to the charges made for such use.
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OF WATER-RATES
- 33 Liability when person using unauthorisedly cannot be identified
- 34 Liability when water runs to waste
- 35 Charges recoverable in addition to penalties
- 36 Charge on occupier for water, how determined
- 37 “Owner‟s rate”
- 38 Amount of owner‟s rate
- 39 Owner‟s rate, when not chargeable
- 40 When occupier is -to pay both owner‟s rate and occupier‟s rate
- 41 Power to make rules for apportioning owner‟s rate
- 42 When owner is to pay „owner‟s rate
- 43 Effect of introduction of canal-irrigation on landlord‟s right to enhance
- 44 Water-rate by whom payable, when charged on land held by several owners
