Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Chhattisgarh Sinchai Prabandhan Me Krishkon Ki Bhagidari Adhiniyam, 2006. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Chhattisgarh. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different areas and for different provisions. (1)(za) "water allocation" in relation to an irrigation system means distribution of water determined from time to time by a farmer's organisation in its area of operation; Provided that the allocation at the Project area level would be determined jointly by the farmers organisations and the Canal Officer, as the case may be; (zb) "water user" means and includes any individual or body corporate or a society using water for agriculture, domestic, power, non-domestic, commercial, industrial or any other purpose from a Government source of irrigation; (2) The words and expressions used in this Act, but not defined, shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Chhattisgarh Irrigation Act, 1931 (No. 3 of 1931).