In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires :

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires : (a) "betterment contribution" means contribution levied under Chapter VI of this Act; (b) "betterment levy oficer" means such officer as the State Government may appoint to be the betterment levy oficer in reSpcet of any area of the Irrigainn Work, or pertion of an irrigation work: (c) "canal oficer" means an officer exercising control over a subdivision of an irrigatjen work or portion of an irrigation work appointed by the State Government; (d) "canal revenue" includes water rate, betterment contribution, water cess, crop cess, licence fee for fishing, navigation, sale of grass, trees and other produce from the land belonging to Irrigation work, proceeds from lease of land belonging to irrigation work and from water mills; (e) "colledor" means the head revenue officer of a district and includes a Deputy Commissioner or other officers appointed under this Act to exercise all or any of the powers of a Colledor; (f) "culturable com mended area" means all lands which are fit for cultivation under irrigable command of an irngation work; (g) "divisional canal officer" means an officer exercising control over a division of an irrigation work or portion of the irnigation work appointed by the State by notification in the Gazette; (h) "drainaoe work" includes— (i) channels, either natural or artificial, for the discharge of waste or surplus water, and all works connected with or auxiliary to such channels; (ii) escape channels from an irrigation work dams weirs. embankments, flood embankments, sluices, groynes and other works connected therewith, but does not include works for the removal of sewage; (iii) any work in connection with a system of reclamation made or improved by State Government for the purpose of drainage of an area; and (iv) all field drains; (i) "field channel" means a channel constructed by owners or occupiers or constructed by the State Government on their behalf and at their cost to serve the various fields within a block of 40 hectares or as may be prescribed and maintained by such owners or occupiers and includes existing water courses constructed or maintained by the owners or occupiers; Explanation:—Existing means existing at the time of the coming into force of this Act. (j) "field drains" include drains, escape channels and other similar works constructed & maintained by the owners or occupiers by the State Government on behalf and at the cost of the owners or occupiers; (k) "flood embankment" means any embankment constructed or maintained by the State Government in connection with any system of irrigation or reclamation works for the protection of lands from inundation or which may be declared by the State Government to be maintained in connection with any such system, and includes all groynes, Spurs, dams and other protective works connected with such embankment; (l) "irrigation work" includes :— (i) all reservoirs, tanks, dams, weirs, canals barrages, channels, domestic water supply works, pipes, ponds, spring ponds, spring channels, aqueducts, sluices, pumping installation constructed, maintained or controlled by the State Government for the supply or storage or water; (ii) all works, embankments, structures, control structures including outlets, supply and escape channels connected with such reservoirs, tanks, dams, weirs, canals, barrage, channels, domestic water supply works, pipes, ponds, spring ponds, Spring channels aqueducts, sluices, pumping installations, and all roads constructed for facilitating the construction or maintenance of such reservoirs, tanks, dams, weirs, canals, barrages, channels, domestic water supply works, pipes ponds, spring ponds, spring channels, aqueducts, sluices and pumping installations; (iii) all drainage works, flood embankments, wells, water courses, and field channels; (iv) any part of a river, stream, lake or natural collection of water or natural drainage channels and ground waters to which the State Government has applied the provisions of Chapter 11 of this Act; and (v) all lands held by the State Government for the purpose of such reservoirs, tanks, weirs, canals, barrages, channels, domestic water supply works, pipes, ponds, spring channels, aqueducts, sluices, pumping installations and all buildings, machinery, fences, gates and other erection upon such lands. (m) "lands under irrigable command" means such lands as are irrigated or capable of being irrigated by the flow or lift from an irrigation work being under its command and shall include also such cultivated land which receive in the opinion of the Divisional Canal Officer, by percolation or otherwise from an irrigation Work or by indirect flow, percolation or drainage from or through adjoining land, an advantage beneficial to the crop; (n) "notification" means a notification published in the official Gazette; (o) "Occupier" includes and occupier of land or property who cultivates or possesses the same for the time being; (p) "on-farm development" includes any of the following works— (i) land-levelling and land-shaping, including realignment of field boundaries; (ii) providing of falls, culverts and farm roads in the fields; (iii) land reclamation by use of engineering, biological and chemical measures, including leaching; (iv) contour bunding and nala bunding; (v) such other works as may be necessary or incidental to development of land or ground or flow water potential and for optimising the utilisation of land and water resources; (q) "outlet" includes an opening, constructed by the State Government in an irrigation work through which water is delivered into a water course or field channel or directly on to any land; (r) "owner" includes every pesron having interest in ownership of land or property and all rights and obligations which are applicable to every person having such joint interest in the ownership; (s) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (t) "sewage effluent" means effluent from any sewage system or sewage disposal works and includes sullage from open drains; (u) "state government" means the Government of State of Manipur; (v) "superintending cahal officer" means an officer exercising general control over an irrigation Work or portion of an irrigation Work; (w) "trade effluent" includes any liquid, gaseous or solid substance which is discharged from premises used for carrying on any trade or industry, other than domestic sewage; (x) "water course" means the length of a channel between an outlet and a field channel built at the cost of the State Government, and maintained by the owners or occupiers to carry water from an outlet to any block of land or as may be prescribed; (y) "water rate" means water rate levied under Chapter V of this Act; (z) "well" means a well sunk for search or extraction of ground water and includes an open well, dug well, bored well, dug-cum-bored well, tubewell and filter point; (aa) "vessel" includes boats, rafts, timber and other floating bodies.