Land deriving benefit from percolation etc. liable to payment of water rate

If it appears to a canal-officer- (i) that any cultivated land within two hundred meters of any canal receives, by percolation or leakage from such canal, an advantage equivalent to that which would be given by a direct supply of canal-water for Irrigation, or (ii) that any cultivated land, wherever situate, derives by a surface flow or by means of a well-sunk within two hundred meters of any canal after the admission of water into such canal, a supply of water which has percolated or leaked from such canal, he may charge on such land a water-fate not exceeding that which would ordinarily have been charged for a similar direct supply to land similarly cultivated. Explanation.- For the purposes of this Act, land charged ullder this section shall be deemed to be land irrigated from a canal.