Act Number: 8

Act Name: The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873

Year: 1873

Enactment Date: 1873-02-11

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

Ministry: Ministry of Jal Shaktri

Department: Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

Section 42: When owner is to pay „owner‟s rate.
    142. When owner is to pay owner’s rate.--If the owner of the land is not the occupier, but has power to enhance the rent of the occupier on the ground that the value of the produce or the productive powers of the land has or have been increased by irrigation,
     or if, when the amount of a rent was fixed, the land was irrigated from the canal,
     the owner shall pay the owner's rate.
Notes:
1. Sections 40 to 43 rep. in the Punjab by the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 (16 of 1887), s. 3 and the Schedule.
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