LawgistThe Northern India Canal and Drainage Act
34Liability when water runs to waste
If water supplied through a water-course be suffered to run to waste, and if, after enquiry by the Divisional Canal-officer, the person through whose act or neglect such water was suffered to run to waste cannot be discovered, all the persons chargeable in respect of the water supplied through such water-course shall be jointly liable for the charges made in respect of the water so wasted.
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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
