THE KERALA IRRIGATION WORKS (EXECUTION BY JOINT LABOUR) ACT, 1967
The Kerala Irrigation Works (Execution by Joint Labour) Act, 1967
The Kerala Irrigation Works (Execution by joint Labour) Act, 1967 regulates shared agricultural irrigation, drainage, and dewatering activities across contiguous paddy field clusters in the state of Kerala. It applies to paddy field owners, actual cultivators, and designated government officers, such as District Collectors and Punja Special Officers. The legislation empowers state authorities to step in when individual landholders neglect their customary duties to contribute labor or funds toward common infrastructure, such as bund repairs or water channels. By enabling officials to execute essential works and recover costs from defaulters, the law protects collective agricultural productivity and prevents individual negligence from harming neighboring farmers.
- 1. Short title and extent
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Procedure on failure to contribute cost or labour for work to be done by mint labour
- 4. Dewaterzng, etc., ofpadasekhamm
- 5. Work not to be executed zf majority (if/imprzetars do not want the work to be executed
- 6. Powers of District Collector, Punja Special Officer and offim' authorised under nation 3 or 4
- 7. zipped
- 8. Revision
- 9. Recovery ofmoney
- 10. Protection ofaotion taken in good faith
- 11. Officer: and person: [zerfbrming function: under the Act to be public :ervant:
- 12. Power to make rule:
- 13. Amendment qf Travancorc-Cochin Act VII of 1956
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