The Goa, Daman and Diu Irrigation Act, 1973

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    "slug": "the-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": "(Act No. 18 of 1973)",
    "act_year": 1973,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "2026-11-11",
    "description": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Irrigation Act, 1973",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "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;\n(2) \"canal\" includes-\n(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;\n(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;\n(c) all water-courses, drainage works and flood embankments;\n(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;\n(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; and\n(f) all mechanical and electrical appliances tools and plants and structures, installed or constructed, maintained or controlled by the Government for lifting water.\n(3) \"Canal-Officer\" means any officer appointed, or invested with powers of a Canal-Officer, under section 3;\n(4) \"Collector\" includes any officer appointed, by the Government to exercise all or any of the powers of a Collector under this Act;\n(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;\n(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;\n(7) \"Government\" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;\n(8) \"Inspector\" means such officer as the Government may declare to be an Inspector for the purpose of this Act;\n(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;\n(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;\n(11) \"Mamlatdar\" includes any officer appointed by the Government to exercise all or any of the powers of a Mamlatdar under this Act;\n(12) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(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;\n(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;\n(15) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(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.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Appointment of officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(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.\nPart II\nConstruction, Control and Maintenance of Canals",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Notification when water supply to be applied for purposes of canals.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Powers of Canal-Officer for purpose of so applying water supply.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Entry for inquiry.",
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            "content": "(a) enter upon such land as he may think necessary for the purpose;\n(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; and\n(c) set up and maintain water-gauges and do all other things necessary for the prosecution of such inquiry and examination.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power to inspect and regulate water supply.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to enter for repairs and to prevent accidents.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Notice to occupier of building etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Means of crossing canals to be provided and obstructions to drainage to be avoided.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Government may prohibit formation of obstructions of rivers etc, within certain limits.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Canal-Officer may issue order to person causing obstruction.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Canal-Officer may cause obstruction to be removed.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Construction of drainage works.",
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            "content": "Part III\nWater-Courses",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Determination of the need for water-course and their alignment in any area.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Collector to acquire land.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Such acquired land to remain as property of Government.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Obligations of user of water-course.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 17
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        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Failure to execute work or to repair water-course.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
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        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Canal-Officer to construct water-courses.",
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            "content": "Part IV\nSupply of Water",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
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        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Regulation of water supply from canal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(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.\nExplanation.",
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        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Power to stop water supply.",
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            "content": "(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.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Agreement for supply of water transferable with the property in respect of which supply is given.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Regulation of cultivation on lands.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "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": "(a) be liable for contravening the provisions of this section; and\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:\nPart V\nAward of Compensation",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Compensation for damage caused consequent of the exercise of the powers conferred by this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) deterioration of climate or soil; or\n(b) stoppage of navigation or of the means of floating timber or of watering cattle; or\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 the issue of the notification under section 4; or\n(d) failure or stoppage of any water in a channel where such failure or stoppage is due to:-\n(i) any cause beyond the control of the authority in charge of the canal;\n(ii) the execution of any repairs, alterations, or additions to the canal;\n(iii) any measures considered necessary by the Canal-Officer, for regulating the proper flow of water in the channel or for maintaining established course of irrigation; or\n(iv) circumstances mentioned under clauses (a) to (f) of section 22:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Limitation of claims.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Compensation for damage caused by entry on land, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Claims to be preferred to the Collector.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Compensation when due and interest payable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Abatement of revenue demand on interruption of water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part VI\nWater-rates, Betterment charges and Irrigation cess",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Determination of rates for supply of canal water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Liability when person using water unauthorisedly cannot be identified.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Liability when water runs to waste.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Charges recoverable in addition to penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Land deriving benefit from percolation liable to water-rate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Levy of water-rate for use of percolation water for non-irrigation purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Scheme of irrigable land under command and betterment charges on construction or improvement etc. of a canal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Publication of scheme and notice to owners and persons interested.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to the inclusion of the lands in the scheme as the lands under irrigable command of the canal, and\n(b) to the imposition and recovery of the betterment charges on such lands.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Inquiry and award.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the lands under irrigable command of the canal,\n(b) the increase in value of such lands by the completion of the construction of a new canal or the improvement or extension of an existing canal,\n(c) the amount of betterment charges leviable on each of the land,\n(d) the date from which the betterment charges shall be leviable:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Increase in value and betterment charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(a) the date of the commencement of construction of any work in connection with the construction or improvement or extension of canal, as the construction date;\n(b) the date of completion of the construction, improvement or extension of a canal as the completion date.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Appeal to the Collector.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Revision by Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Finality of orders of Government, Collector's decision and award.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Betterment charges to be first charge on land next to land revenue.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Payment of betterment charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Relinquishment or exchange of land in lieu of the payment of betterment charges.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Levy of irrigation cess.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Liability for irrigation cess.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) from the occupant or superior holder, as the case may be, where the tenant was primarily liable, and\n(b) in any other case, from any other person in possession of the land:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Rate and period of irrigation cess.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Date for payment of irrigation cess.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Payment and recovery of water-rates and other dues.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part VII\nOf Obtaining Labour in Emergencies",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Procedure for obtaining labour for works or repairs urgently required.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. List of Labourers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Reports to be made by Canal-Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "57. Appeals against order under section 54.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part VIII\nMaintenance of Canals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Power to take over canal for maintenance by Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) on the request of the land holder, or\n(ii) in the opinion of the Government, such notification is necessary in the public interest:\nPart IX\nSecond-class Canals",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Notification of Second-class Canal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) declare that it is proposed to constitute any canal, channel, stream, river, well, tubewell, artisian well, pipe or reservoir, natural or artificial or bandhara or any part thereof, whether constructed or maintained or controlled by the Government or not, which is actually used or required for the purposes of irrigation a Second-class Canal.\n(b) fix a period of not less than three months from the date of publication of such notification for the submission of objections to such proposals:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Proclamation by the Collector.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) specifying, as nearly as possible, the source of supply, situation and limits of Second-class Canal notified under sub-section (3) of section 59;\n(b) stating that the provisions of this Part applies to the canal so notified from the date of the notification published under sub-section (3) of section 59; and\n(c) fixing a period of not less than three months from the date of such proclamation within which every person claiming any right in the canal so notified, either to present to the Collector, a written notice specifying, or to appear before him and prove, the nature of such right.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Framing of Record of Rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the nature of Second-class Canal and any work subsidiary thereto;\n(b) the land irrigable therefrom;\n(c) the custom or rule of irrigation;\n(d) the rights to water and the conditions on which such rights are enjoyed; and\n(e) such other matter as the Government may, by rules, prescribed in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Powers of Canal-Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Revision of Record of Rights.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Commutation of rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Power of Government where works are undertaken increasing supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Publication of Record of Rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Entries in the Record of Rights to be relevant as evidence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Notice of suit to be given to the Collector.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Obligation to carry out petty repairs.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) the filling up gullies, rut, and holes, especially at the back of revetment and all petty repairs of a like nature essential for the safety of bunds, tanks, channel banks, or other portions of the said Second-class Canal;\n(2) The prevention of the growth on such canal of prickly pear, young trees and other vegetation endangering the safety or concealing the conditions of such canal;\n(3) the preservation of such bushes and grasses as have been planted for the protection of the interior water slopes of such canal;\n(4) the clearance of silt from sluices, supply and distributing channels;\n(5) the clearance of waste weirs and waste channels.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Incidence of obligation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
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            "number": "72",
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            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Public servant and some other persons protected from legal proceedings.",
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            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(1) the manner of framing and revising the Record of Rights;\n(2) the proceedings of any Officer who, under the provisions of this Part, is required to take action in any matter; and\n(3) generally to carry out the provisions of this part.\nPart X\nSafeguard for Canals",
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            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Limitation in respect of canals.",
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            "content": "(a) interfere with or divert the course of a natural stream; or\n(b) construct any earthern or massonary bund or weir on any channel or stream, flowing above or below any water-course.",
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            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Interference with the functioning of cross drainage works.",
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            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Obligations of owners in respect of works affecting safety of canals.",
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        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Mining or quarrying near canals.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Excavation of wells near canals.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "80",
            "title": "80. Operation of sluice gates, etc.",
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        {
            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Fishing and plying of boats, etc.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "82",
            "title": "82. Letting out of water from canal prohibited.",
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        {
            "number": "83",
            "title": "83. Depositing produce of mines in or near canal prohibited.",
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            "content": "Part XI\nPenalties",
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        {
            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Offences under the Act.",
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            "content": "(i) damages, alters, enlarges or obstructs any canal;\n(ii) interferes with, increases or diminishes the supply of water in, or the flow of water from, through, over or under any canal, or by means raises or lowers the level of the water in any canal;\n(iii) opens, shuts or obstructs or attempts to open, shut or obstruct any sluice or outlet or any other similar contrivance in any canal;\n(iv) corrupts or fouls the water of any canal so as to render it less fit for the purposes for which it is ordinarily used;\n(v) destroys, defaces or moves any land mark or level mark or water gauge fixed under the authority of a public servant;\n(vi) destroys, tampers with or removes any apparatus, or part of any apparatus for controlling, regulating or measuring the flow of water in any canal;\n(vii) causes any animal or vehicle to pass on or across any of the works, banks or canals or channels of a canal contrary to the rules made under this Act after he has been required to desist therefrom;\n(viii) causes or knowingly or wilfully permits cattle to graze upon any canal or flood embankment, or causes, or knowingly and wilfully permits cattle to be tethered upon any such canal or embankment or roots up any grass or other vegetation growing on any such canal or embankment or removes, cuts or in any way injures, or causes to be removed, cut or otherwise injures any tree, bush, grass or hedge intended for protection of such canal or embankment;\n(ix) puts up a dam across or otherwise obstructs the free course of water the right to which vests in the Government;\n(x) being responsible for the maintenance of any water-course, or using the water-course, neglects to take proper precautions necessary for the prevention of waste of the water thereof, or interferes with the authorised distribution of the water therefrom or uses such water in an unauthorised manner;\n(xi) contravenes any provision of this Act;\n(xii) contravenes any rule made under this Act, the contravention whereof is declared in the rules to be an offence punishable under this section;",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Obstruction to be removed and damage repaired.",
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        {
            "number": "86",
            "title": "86. Abatement.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Person employed on canal may take offenders into custody.",
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            "content": "(1) wilfully damages, obstructs or fouls such canal, or\n(2) without proper authority interferes with the supply or flow of water, in or from the canal, or in any river or stream so as to endanger, damage, make dangerous, or render less useful, such canal.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "88",
            "title": "88. Punishment under other laws not barred.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "89",
            "title": "89. Offences under this Act to be cognizable.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 88
        },
        {
            "number": "90",
            "title": "90. Payment of fine as reward to informant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part XII\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 89
        },
        {
            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Appeals against orders under Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "92",
            "title": "92. Power to summon and examine witnesses.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 91
        },
        {
            "number": "93",
            "title": "93. Service of notice.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 92
        },
        {
            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Bar of certain proceedings etc.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 93
        },
        {
            "number": "95",
            "title": "95. Offences by companies.",
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            "content": "Explanation.\n(a) 'Company' means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) 'Director' in relation to firm means a partner in the firm.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Saving of certain canals.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 95
        },
        {
            "number": "97",
            "title": "97. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the proceedings of any officer who, under any provision of this Act, is required or empowered to take action in any matter;\n(b) the amount of and charges to be made under this Act;\n(c) the economic use of water supplied from any canal;\n(d) the manner in which and the officer by whom complaints as to the inadequacy of means of crossing shall be investigated under section 10;\n(e) regulating the period of opening and closing the channels distributaries and sub-distributaries of canal;\n(f) the other manner in which the scheme shall be published under section 40;\n(g) the date or payment of the rate of interest on and the period which the instalments of betterment charges shall be paid under section 47;\n(h) the suspension or remission of betterment charges, the instalments thereof and the interest thereon;\n(i) the conditions subject to which the relinquishment or exchange of lands shall be permitted under section 48;\n(j) the division into zones of lands under the irrigable command of a canal for the purpose of the betterment charges leviable on such lands;\n(k) and generally to carry out the provisions of this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "98",
            "title": "98. Repeal.",
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        "Act ID": "goa157",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 18 of 1973)",
        "Enactment Date": "11th November, 1954",
        "Act Year": "1973",
        "Short Title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Irrigation Act, 1973",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}