Section 4

Power to appoint officers.

The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873

  • Act 8 of 1873
  • Ministry of Jal Shaktri
  • Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
About this Act

An Act to regulate Irrigation, Navigation and Drainage Northern India.

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    The State Government may from time to time declare, by notification in the Official Gazette, the officers by whom, and the local limits within which, all or any of the powers or duties hereinafter conferred or imposed shall be exercised or performed.
     All officers mentioned in section 3, clause (7), shall be respectively subject to the orders of such officers as the State Government from time to time directs.
                                                STATE AMENDMENT
Uttar Pradesh
Amendment of section 4 of Act no. XVII of 1878.—In the first proviso to section 4 of the Northern India Ferries Act, 1878, as amend in its application to Uttar Pradesh, between the words “two States” and the words “the powers”, the words “to which this Act applies” shall be inserted.
[Vide@ Uttar Pradesh Act IV of 1960, s. 2]

Source: India Code (Legislative Department, Govt. of India). Check the official Gazette before relying on it in court. Not legal advice. Free legal aid: 15100 (NALSA) · Know your rights

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