Power to Stop Water Supply. - The Divisional Canal Officer may not stop the supply of water to any water-course or to any person except in the following cases :-
(1)
Whenever and so long as it is necessary to stop such supply for the purposes of executing any work ordered by competent authority and with the previous sanction of the State Government;
(2)
whenever and so long as any water-course is not maintained in such proper customary repair as to prevent the wasteful escape of water therefrom;
(3)
within periods fixed from time to time by the Divisional Canal Officer.
(b) Claims to compensation in case of failure or stoppage of supply. - No claim shall be made against the State Government for compensation in respect of loss caused by the failure or stoppage of the water in a canal, by reason of any cause beyond the control of the State Government, or of any repairs, alterations or additions to the canal, or of any measures taken for regulating the proper flow of water therein or for maintaining the established course of irrigation which the Divisional Canal Officer considers necessary; but the person suffering such loss may claim such remission of the ordinary charges payable for the use of the water as is authorised by the State Government;
(c) Claims on account of interruption from other causes. - If the supply of water to any land irrigated from a canal be interrupted otherwise than in the manner prescribed in the last preceding clause, the occupier or owner of such land may present a petition for compensation to the Collector for any loss arising from such interruption, and the Collector may award to the petitioner reasonable compensation for such loss;
(d) Duration of supply. - When the water of a canal is supplied for irrigation of a single crop, the permission to use such water shall be held to continue only until that crop comes to maturity, and to apply only to that crop; but if it be supplied for irrigating two or more crops to be raised on the same land within the year, such permission shall be held to continue for one year from the commencement of the irrigation, and to apply to such crops only as are matured within that year;
(e) Sale or subletting of right to use canal water. - Unless with the permission of the Superintending Canal officer, no person entitled to use the water of any canal, or any work, building or land appertaining to any canal, shall sell or sublet or otherwise transfer his right to such use :