17. Section 33 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section; |
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| (2) in the renumbered sub-section (1) of that section, by the substitution, for the words " in accordance with the provisions of this Part. ", of the words " by the Government Agent."; and |
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| (3) by the insertion, immediately after the renumbered sub-section (1) of that section, of the following new sub-section: -
| | " (2) It shall be lawful for the Government Agent in consultation with the advisory committee in respect of major irrigation works appointed under section 6-
| | | (a) to vary any irrigation rate or contribution in money or in labour imposed or levied under an existing irrigation scheme, notwithstanding that such irrigation rate may be higher than the maximum irrigation rate specified in such scheme; and |
| (b) to incur expenses in carrying out operations necessary for the maintenance of any irrigation work and to charge such expenditure to the allottees and tenant cultivators, and where there are no allottees or tenant cultivators of any lands, to the proprietor of the lands benefited by that scheme, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the scheme relating to such irrigation work.". |
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