THE GOA, DAMAN AND DIU IRRIGATION ACT, 1973

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    "slug": "goa-daman-and-diu-irrigation-act-1973",
    "title": "THE GOA, DAMAN AND DIU IRRIGATION ACT, 1973",
    "short_title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Irrigation Act, 1973",
    "act_number": "18",
    "act_year": 1973,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa, Daman and Diu",
    "law_status": "valid",
    "enactment_date": "1973-12-29",
    "description": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Irrigation Act, 1973",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "to make provision for the construction, maintenance and Regulations of Canals, for the Supply of Water therefrom, obtaining labour in emergencies and for the levy of rates for water so supplied and certain other matters pertaining to Irrigation in the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Preamble",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu in the Twenty-fourth Year of the republic of India as follows:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "PART I - PRELIMINARY",
            "chapter": "PART I",
            "content": "PART I\nPreliminary",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Goa, Daman and Diu Irrigation Act, 1973.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette appoint:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 1(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that different dates may be appointed for different areas of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) \"bandhara\" means any structure, permanent or otherwise, constructed or maintained for the purpose of impounding or diverting water of any river, stream, lake or any natural collection of water, and includes any weirs, sluices, head walls, groins or any other works connected with such bandharas;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) \"canal\" includes-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)(a)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all canals, channels, pipes and reservoirs, bandharas, weirs, tanks, ponds, spring ponds and sluices constructed, maintained or controlled by Government for the supply or storage of water;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)(b)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) all works, embankments, structures, and supply and escape channels connected with such canals, channels, pipes or reservoirs, bandharas, weirs, tanks and all roads constructed for the purpose of facilitating the construction or maintenance of such canals, channels, pipes or reservoirs;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)(c)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(c) all water-courses, drainage works and flood embankments;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)(d)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(d) any part of a river, stream, lake, natural collection of water or natural drainage-channel to which the Government may apply the provisions of section 4, or the water of which has been applied or used before the commencement of this Act for the purpose of irrigation;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)(e)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(e) all land belonging to the Government which is situated on the bank of any canal and which has been appropriated under the orders of the Government for the purposes of such canal;\nand",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 150
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)(f)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(f) all mechanical and electrical appliances tools and plants and structures, installed or constructed, maintained or controlled by the Government for lifting water.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 160
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(3) \"Canal-Officer\" means any officer appointed, or invested with powers of a Canal-Officer, under section 3;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 170
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(4) \"Collector\" includes any officer appointed, by the Government to exercise all or any of the powers of a Collector under this Act;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 180
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(5)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(5) \"drainage work\" means any work in connection with a system of irrigation or reclamation made or improved by the Government for the purpose of the drainage of any place, whether under the provisions of section 14 or otherwise and includes escape-channels from a canal, dams, weirs, embankments, sluices, groins and other works connected therewith but does not include works for the removal of sewage;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 190
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(6)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(6) \"flood-embankment\" means any embankment constructed or maintained by the Government in connection with any system of irrigation or reclamation works for the protection of land from inundation or which may be declared by the Government to be maintained in connection with any such system, and includes all groins, spurs, dams and other protective works connected with such embankments;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 200
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(7)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(7) \"Government\" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 210
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(8)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(8) \"Inspector\" means such officer as the Government may declare to be an Inspector for the purpose of this Act;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 220
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(9)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(9) \"land holder\" of \"holder\" means the person in whom a right to hold the land is vested, whether solely on his own account or wholly or partly in trust for another person or for a class of persons or for the public and includes a mortgage vested with right of possession;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 230
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(10)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(10) \"land under irrigable command of a canal\" means such lands as are irrigated or capable of being irrigated from a canal, being under its command and shall include also such lands as are or shall be deemed to be irrigated within the meaning of section 37;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 240
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(11)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(11) \"Mamlatdar\" includes any officer appointed by the Government to exercise all or any of the powers of a Mamlatdar under this Act;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 250
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(12)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(12) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 260
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(13)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(13) \"occupier\" means in respect of any land, any person who has an interest in the land and cultivates the land himself or by his servants or by hired labour and includes a tenant;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 270
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(14)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(14) \"owner\" includes every person having a joint interest in the ownership of the thing specified and all rights and obligations which attach to an owner under this Act shall attach jointly and severally to every person having such joint interest in the ownership;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 280
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(15)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(15) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 290
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(16)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(16) \"water-course\" means any water-channel or pipe having a capacity not exceeding [five hundred] litres per second, which is supplied with water from a canal and includes all subsidiary works belonging to such channel or pipe except the sluice or outlet through which water is supplied to such channel or pipe.",
            "footnote": "Act No. 6 of 1986",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 300
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Appointment of officers",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "3. Appointment of officers. The Government may-\n(a) appoint such officers with such designations, and assign to them respectively such powers and duties under this Act, as it may deem fit;\n(b) invest any Government Officer, in any Department, either personally or in right of his office by name or by virtue of office or any other person, with such powers, and impose upon him such duties, under this Act, as it may deem fit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 310
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "PART II - CONSTRUCTION, CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE OF CANALS",
            "chapter": "PART II",
            "content": "PART II\nConstruction, Control and Maintenance of Canals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 320
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Notification when water supply to be applied for purposes of canals",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "4. Notification when water supply to be applied for purposes of canals.-\nWhenever it appears expedient to the Government that the water of any river or stream flowing in a natural channel or of any lake, or any other natural collection of still water, should be applied or used by the Government for the purpose of any existing or proposed canal, the Government may, by notification declare that the said water will be so applied or used after a day to be specified in the said notification, not being earlier than three months from the date thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 330
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5. Powers of Canal-Officer for purpose of so applying water supply",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "5. Powers of Canal-Officer for purpose of so applying water supply.\nAt any time after the day specified under section 4, the Canal-Officer may enter on any land, remove any obstruction, close any channel and do any other thing necessary for such application or use of the said water, and for such purpose may take with him, or depute or employ, such subordinates and other persons as he deems fit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 340
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6. Entry for inquiry",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "6. Entry for inquiry. Whenever it shall be necessary to make any inquiry or examination in connection with a proposed canal or with the maintenance of an existing canal, the Canal-Officer and any person acting under the general or special order of any such Canal-Officer, may-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 350
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(a)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) enter upon such land as he may think necessary for the purpose;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 360
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(b)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) exercise all powers and do all things in respect of such land as he might exercise and do, if the Government had issued a notification under the provisions of section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894), to the effect that the land in that locality is likely to be needed for a public purpose;\nand",
            "footnote": "Central Act I of 1894",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 370
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(c)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(c) set up and maintain water-gauges and do all other things necessary for the prosecution of such inquiry and examination.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 380
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7. Power to inspect and regulate water supply",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "7. Power to inspect and regulate water supply. The Canal-Officer and any person acting under the general or special order of any such Canal-Officer may enter upon any land, building or water-course with respect to which any water rate is chargeable under this Act, for the purpose of inspecting or regulating the use of water supplied or for measuring the land irrigated thereby chargeable with a water rate and for doing all things necessary for the proper regulation and management of the canal from which such water is supplied.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 390
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "Section 8. Power to enter for repairs and to prevent accidents",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "8. Power to enter for repairs and to prevent accidents.\nIn case of any accidents being apprehended or happening to a canal, the Canal-Officer and any person acting under the general or special order of any such Canal-Officer, may enter upon land adjacent to such canal and may take all materials required to execute all works which may be necessary to such lands for the purpose of preventing such accident or repairing any damage done.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 400
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "Section 9. Notice to occupier of building etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "9. Notice to occupier of building etc. When a Canal-Officer or any other person acting under his general or special orders in this behalf proposes acting under the provisions of section 6, section 7 or section 8 to enter into any building or enclosed court or garden attached to a dwelling house, not supplied with water from a canal and not adjacent to a flood-embankment, he shall previously give to the occupier of such building, court or garden such reasonable notice as the urgency of the case may allow.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 410
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "Section 10. Means of crossing canals to be provided and obstructions to drainage to be avoided",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "10. Means of crossing canals to be provided and obstructions to drainage to be avoided.\nSuitable means of crossing canals shall be provided at such places as the Government thinks necessary for the reasonable convenience of the inhabitants of the adjacent land, and suitable bridges, culverts or other works shall be constructed to prevent the drainage of the adjacent land being obstructed by any canal.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 420
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "Section 11. Government may prohibit formation of obstructions of rivers etc, within certain limits",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "11. Government may prohibit formation of obstructions of rivers etc, within certain limits.\nWhenever it appears to the Government that injury to the public health or public convenience or to any canal or to any land for which irrigation from a canal is available, has arisen or may arise from the obstructions of any river, stream or natural drainage course, the Government may, by notification, prohibit within limits to be defined in such notification, the formation of any such obstruction, or may, within such limits, order the removal or other modifications of such obstruction and thereupon so much of the said river, stream, or natural drainage course, as is comprised within such limits, shall be held to be a drainage work as defined in section 2.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 430
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "Section 12. Canal-Officer may issue order to person causing obstruction",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "12. Canal-Officer may issue order to person causing obstruction. The Canal-Officer, may after the publication of the notification under section 11, issue an order to any person causing or having control over any such obstruction; to remove or modify the same within such period as may be specified in such order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 440
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "Section 13. Canal-Officer may cause obstruction to be removed",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "13. Canal-Officer may cause obstruction to be removed. If within the period specified in the order under section 12, any person does not comply with such order, the Canal-Officer, may cause the obstruction to be removed or modified and such person shall be liable to pay the expenses of removal or modification, and if the person does not, when called upon, pay the expenses of such removal or modification, such expenses shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 450
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "Section 14. Construction of drainage works",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "14. Construction of drainage works. Whenver it appears to the Government that any drainage work is necessary for the public health or for the improvement of the proper cultivation or irrigation of any land, or that protection from flood or other accumulations of water, or from erosion by a river is required for any land, the Government may cause a scheme for such work to be drawn up and carried into execution, and the person authorised by the Government to draw up and execute such scheme may exercise in connection therewith the powers conferred on Canal-Officer by sections 6, 7 and 8 and shall be liable to the obligations imposed upon Canal-Officer by sections 9 and 28.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 460
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "PART III - WATER-COURSES",
            "chapter": "PART III",
            "content": "PART III\nWater-Courses",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 470
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "Section 15. Determination of the need for water-course and their alignment in any area",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "15. Determination of the need for water-course and their alignment in any area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 480
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "Section 15(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) The Canal-Officer on being satisfied that the construction of water-courses in any area is necessary in the public interest for supply of water from a canal to lands requiring such supply for the purpose of cultivation, shall declare by notification, that such water-courses may be constructed after a date to be specified in the notification, not being earlier than thirty days from the date of publication thereof. A copy of such notification shall be sent to the Mamlatdar of the area for publication in the village concerned.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 490
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "Section 15(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) After the date specified in the notification under sub-section (1) the Canal-Officer shall determine the suitable alignment for the water-courses and shall mark out the land, which in his opinion, is necessary to occupy for the construction thereof. He shall forthwith publish a notification by affixture on the notice board in his office that so much of such land as is situated within such village or villages has been so marked out and shall send a copy of such notification to the Mamlatdar for publication in every village through which the water-course is taken on such lands. He shall also send a copy of such notification to the Collector of every District in which such land is situated.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 500
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "Section 16. Collector to acquire land",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "16. Collector to acquire land.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 510
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "Section 16(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) On receipt of a copy of a notification under section 15, the Collector shall issue notices to the owner of such land and other persons interested in it to show cause why such land should not be acquired and after giving them a reasonable opportunity of being heard, if satisfied that such land is required for a water-course, proceed to acquire and take possession of such land under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act 1 of 1894) as if a declaration had been issued by the Government for the acquisition thereof under section 6 of that Act and as if the Government had thereupon directed the Collector to take order for the acquisition of such land under section 7 of the said Act and as if the Government had issued orders for the immediate possession being taken under section 17 of the said Act.",
            "footnote": "Central Act 1 of 1894",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 520
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "Section 16(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894), the acquisition of any land under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be for a public purpose.",
            "footnote": "Central Act I of 1894",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 530
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "Section 16(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(3) Save as aforesaid, the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894), shall apply to acquisitions to be made under this Act.",
            "footnote": "Central Act I of 1894",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 540
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "Section 17. Such acquired land to remain as property of Government",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "17. Such acquired land to remain as property of Government.\nOn possession of the land being taken, the Canal-Officer shall fix the boundary marks in the prescribed manner and thereupon the ownership of such land shall vest in Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 550
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "Section 18. Obligations of user of water-course",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "18. Obligations of user of water-course.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 560
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "Section 18(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) Every user of water-course shall be bound to maintain such water-course in a fit state of repair for the conveyance of water.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 570
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "Section 18(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) Every user of water-course shall subject to the provisions of Part IV be entitled to have a supply of water by such water-course on such terms as may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 580
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "Section 19. Failure to execute work or to repair water-course",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "19. Failure to execute work or to repair water-course. If any user of a water-course fails to fulfill any obligation imposed upon him by sub-section (1) of section 18, the Canal-Officer may require him, by notice to execute the necessary repairs within a period of not less than seven days to be specified in such notice, and, in the event of a failure, may execute the same and, except as hereinafter provided in this section, all expenses incurred in the execution of such repairs shall be a sum due by such user to the Government and shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 590
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "Section 20. Canal-Officer to construct water-courses",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "20. Canal-Officer to construct water-courses. After any land has been acquired under section 16 and has vested in the Government under section 17, the Canal-Officer shall construct the water-courses necessary in the area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 600
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "PART IV - SUPPLY OF WATER",
            "chapter": "PART IV",
            "content": "PART IV\nSupply of Water",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 610
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "Section 21. Regulation of water supply from canal",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "21. Regulation of water supply from canal.- The Canal-Officer by a notification in respect of any canal or class of canals may, after such inquiry as he deems fit, regulate in respect of any canal for each year or for a specified term of years at a time, as circumstances may require-\n(1) the time for letting out water for irrigation;\n(2) the period of supply;\n(3) the quantity of supply; and\n(4) the areas to be supplied at different times.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 620
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "Explanation to Section 21",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation: A land shall be deemed to have been supplied with water if water is made available for irrigation of such land.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 630
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "Section 22. Power to stop water supply",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "22. Power to stop water supply. The supply of water to any water-course or to any person who is entitled to such supply not be stopped except-\n(a) whenever and so long as it is necessary to stop such supply for the purpose of executing any work ordered by the competent authority competent to accord administrative approval under the C.P.W.D. Manual.\n(b) whenever and so long as any water-course by which such supply is received is not maintained in such repair as to prevent the wasteful escape of water therefrom;\n(c) whenever and so long as it is necessary to do so in order to supply in rotation the legitimate demands of other persons entitled to water;\n(d) whenever and so long as it may be necessary to do so in order to prevent the wastage or misuse of water;\n(e) within the periods fixed from time to time by a Canal-Officer duly empowered by the Government in this behalf, of which due notice shall be given;\n(f) whenever there is diminution in the supply of water in the canal work due to any natural or seasonal causes and so long as it is necessary to do so.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 640
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "Section 23. Agreement for supply of water transferable with the property in respect of which supply is given",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "23. Agreement for supply of water transferable with the property in respect of which supply is given.— Every agreement for the supply of canal water to any land, building or other immovable property shall be transferable therewith and shall be presumed to have been so transferred whenever a transfer of such land, building or other immovable property takes place.\nNo person entitled to the use of any work or land appertaining to any canal, and, except in the case of any such agreement as aforesaid, no person entitled to use the water of any canal, shall sell or sub-let or otherwise transfer his right to such use without the permission of the Canal-Officer.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 650
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "Section 24. Regulation of cultivation on lands",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "24. Regulation of cultivation on lands.—",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 660
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "Section 24(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) Subject to the provisions of section 25, and subject to such directions as may be issued from time to time, the Canal-Officer may in any year, having regard to the quantity of water available in any canal under his control determine, by order published in the prescribed manner and within the time prescribed the area of lands in the irrigable area of such canal, to be cultivated with paddy, sugarcane, or any perennial crop or intermittent irrigated dry crops or with dry or semi-dry crops and regulate the supply of water for irrigation accordingly.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 670
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "Section 24(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) If, in accordance with a decision of the Canal-Officer under sub-section (1), any land entitled to supply of water under the canal is not supplied with water, the holder of such land shall be liable to pay only the dry assessment of such lands.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 680
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "Section 24(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(3) From the order of the Canal-Officer under this section an appeal shall lie within fifteen days from the date of the publication of the said order, to the Collector of the district.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 690
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "Section 25. Power to prescribe the kind of crop to be grown under the irrigation area and the period of sowing such crop",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "25. Power to prescribe the kind of crop to be grown under the irrigation area and the period of sowing such crop.—",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 700
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "Section 25(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) Whenever the Government is satisfied that for the better cultivation of the lands and the due preservation of the water-resources of a canal, it is expedient and desirable in the public interest to regulate the kind of crop that should be grown on lands irrigated by such canal and the period of sowing such kind of crop, it may, by notification, make a declaration to that effect.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 710
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "Section 25(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) On making of a declaration under sub-section (1), the Canal-Officer, with the approval of the Collector, may specify by notification in such manner as may be prescribed the kinds of crop that shall be grown on any land under such canal and the period of sowing and planting such crops.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 720
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "Section 25(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(3) On the publication of a notification under sub-section (2) no person shall grow or allow any crop other than the crops specified in such notification to be grown on any land under such canal and no person shall sow or plant or allow the sowing or planting of crop at any time other than during the period specified in such notification.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 730
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "Section 25(4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(4) In all cases in which the person who has sown or grown any unauthorised crop or allowed any land to be grown or sown with such unauthorised crop cannot be found, the holder of the land in addition to such other person concerned, shall—\n(a) be liable for contravening the provisions of this section;\nand\n(b) also be liable to pay such water rate as may be determined by the Canal-Officer not being less than five times and not exceeding ten times the water rate which he would otherwise have been required to pay:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 740
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 25(4)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that if no water is utilised either directly or indirectly from the canal for growing any crop, the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) shall not be applicable.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 750
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "PART V - AWARD OF COMPENSATION",
            "chapter": "PART V",
            "content": "PART V\nAward of Compensation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 760
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "Section 26. Compensation for damage caused consequent of the exercise of the powers conferred by this Act",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "26. Compensation for damage caused consequent of the exercise of the powers conferred by this Act.— Compensation may be awarded in respect of any substantial damage caused by the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this Act, which is capable of being ascertained:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 770
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 26",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that no compensation shall be so awarded in respect of any damage arising from—\r\n(a) deterioration of climate or soil;\r\nor\r\n(b) stoppage of navigation or of the means of floating timber or of watering cattle;\r\nor\r\n(c) stoppage or diminution of the supply of water in consequence of the exercise of the power conferred by section 5 if no use has been made of such supply within the five years immediately preceding the date of",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 780
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "197318",
        "Act Number": "18",
        "Enactment Date": "1973-12-29",
        "Act Year": "1973",
        "Short Title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Irrigation Act, 1973",
        "Department": "LAW AND JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa, Daman and Diu"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:45"
}