The Mettur Canal Irrigation Cess Act, 1953

 
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The Mettur Canal Irrigation Cess Act, 1953 
 
Act 17 of 1953 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Keyword(s): 
Mettur Canal, Irrigation Cess 
 
216 A.. '~r (,lanu/ irrigation [I953 : T.N. Act XVn 
Cess 
'[TAMIL N.ADUj ACT No. XFrl: 0:' 1953.8 
(Received the assent of the President orz the 9th September 
1953 ; first p~blidzed in the For . St. George Gazette 
on the 23rd September 1953.) 
An Act to provide for the extension of the provisions of the 
Bhavani Reservoir Irrigation Cess Ad, 1933, to lands 
which may be irrigated from the Mettnr Canal. 
WH~R~AS the State Government are excavating a canal 
from the Mettur Reservoir for irrigatiox of certain lands 
a in the districts o ' C~iinbatore and Salem; 
AND WHEREAS the conditions of such irrigation are 
similar to those of lands from the Bhavani Reservoir and it 
is consequently necessary to extend the provisions of the 
Bhavani Reservoir Irrigation Cess Act, 1933 ('[Tamil Nadu] 
Act XVI of 1933) to irrigation from the said canal: It is 
hereby enacted as follows :-- 
I. (I) This Act may be called the Mettur Canal 
Short extent "Ie3 and Irrigation Cess Act, 1953. 
Qmncement . 
(2) ~t'extends to all lands the irrigation of which from 
the Mettur Canal is allowed by or under the orders of the 
State Government but doos not extend to any land which on 
the date on which ttis Act comes into force is entitled to 
irrigation with water of any sourcc (other than the Mettur 
Canal) belonging to or constructed by, or on behalf of, the 
aover ament . 
(3) It shall come intl~ force at once. 
1. These words were ~~ifrst it lit ed hr t he word *' Madras " by the 
Tamil Nadu Ad:iptni tm of' Laws Order, 1969, as amended by the 
Tamil Nadu Adapt i( fn t tf Laws (Se~nd An~endrnent) Order, 1969. 
2. For Statement 01' Objccrs and Reasrms, sce F'rt ,J'$. Gcorgr 
Obzette,  par^ W-A, dated t he 10! 11 June 1953. pa,ge 10. 

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