Irrigation (Amendment) Act (No. 48 of 1968)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 118 of the principal enactment

47. Section 118 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -

(1) in sub-section (1) of that section-

	(a) by the insertion, immediately before the definition of " appointed date ", of the following new definition: -

	(b) by the insertion, immediately after the definition of " appointed date ", of the following new definition: -

	(c) by the insertion, immediately after the definition of " cost of maintenance ", of the following new definitions: -

	(d) by the repeal of the definition of " Government Agent " and the substitution therefor of the following new-definition : -

	(e) in the definition of " irrigation scheme " by the omission of the words " between the proprietor and the Government ";

	(f) by the omission of the definitions of " land ", "majority of proprietors " and " occupier ";

	(g) by the insertion, immediately after the definition of " minor irrigation work ", of the following new definitions :-

	(h) by the substitution, for the definition of " proprietor " of the following new-definition : -

	(i) by the insertion, immediately after the definition of " regulation ", of the following new definition: -

(2) by the addition, immediately after sub-section(2) of that section, of the following new sub-section: -

	" (3) Where a part of a land belonging to a proprietor is cultivated by a tenant cultivator, the part of the land cultivated by the tenant cultivator and the part of the land not so cultivated shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be two separate lands. ".