Act.

Any person in charge of, or employed upon any irrigation work, may remove from the land or buildings belonging thereto, or may take into custody without a warrant and without unnecessary delay take to a Magistrate or in the absence of the Magistrate take to the nearest Police Station, any person who within his view: (a) wilfully damages, alters, enlarges or obstructs any irrigation work; (b) without proper authority interferes with the supply or flow of water, in or from any irrigation work so as to endanger, damage on render less useful such irrigation work.