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 43: Effect of introduction of canal-irrigation on landlord’s right to enhance.
    143. Effect of introduction or canal-irrigation on landlord’s right to enhance.--If a revision of settlement is a ground for entertaining a suit, for the enhancement of rent, the introduction of canal-irrigation into any land shall have the same effect on the landlord 's right to re-enhance the rent of a tenant with a right of occupancy of such land, as if a revision of settlement had taken place, under which the revenue payable in respect of such land had been increased.
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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