General Powers of the Authority

The authority competent under this Act shall have the power to intervene in the management of the irrigation system to ensure the objectives of the Act are met, including the power to issue directions to the Farmer Organization. Every Water Users Association shall be registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The application for registration shall be submitted to the Registrar of Societies of the concerned district. The application shall be accompanied by the Memorandum of Association, Rules and Regulations (Bye-laws) and a list of the members of the Managing Committee. The Registrar shall, after such inquiry as he deems fit, and on being satisfied that the association has been formed in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, register the association and grant a certificate of registration. In Order to avoid overlapping in command areas of flow and lift irrigation and complications arising thereby, a Canal Officer not below the rank of an Executive Engineer, duly empowered by the competent authority in this behalf with prior consent of the beneficiary farmers may give permission to form Lift Irrigation Water Users' Association, on notified rivers or streams in the command of flow irrigation, after delineating the area of flow and lift irrigation separately in the prescribed manner.