29. Section 57 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -
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| | (1) In any case in which a majority of the allottees and tenant cultivators, and where there are no allottees or tenant cultivators of any lands the proprietors of those lands, of the lands under any major irrigation work in respect of which a maintenance rate is payable under section 56, by resolution passed at a meeting summoned for the purpose by the Government Agent, request that such work be exempt from the provisions of that section, and that the Cultivation Committee within the area of whose jurisdiction such work lies maintain the work, the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, direct that, with effect from such date and subject to such terms and conditions as may be specified in the Order, such work shall be exempt from the provisions of that section and shall be maintained by the Cultivation Committee in accordance with rules made under Part III, such rules not being inconsistent with any terms and conditions so specified. | | |
| | (2) The Government Agent shall place before the meeting of the allottees, tenant cultivators and proprietors summoned under sub-section (1), a scheme of maintenance which shall be prepared by the Director of Irrigation in consultation with the Government Agent, and in which all the operations which the Cultivation Committee is expected to undertake for the purposes of the maintenance of the irrigation work shall be clearly and completely specified. | | |
| | (3) Every irrigation work in respect of which an Order is published under sub-section (1) shall with effect from the date specified in the Order be exempt from the provisions of section 56, and shall be maintained by the Cultivation Committee concerned in accordance with rules made under Part III and the terms and conditions, if any, specified in the said Order: | | |
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