Section 8

The appropriate authority may by notification in the Gazette impose upon all or any land within any drainage area an annual rate, hereinafter called a “drainage rate”, to meet the cost of drainage works affecting such drainage area, and may in like manner cancel or vary such annual rate:

Provided that no rate shall be imposed under this section upon any land until the drainage work in respect of which the same is imposed has been completed.

Any drainage rate shall be in addition to any rate, assessment or other liability imposed on any land within a drainage area by the terms of the document of title under which such land is held or under any other written law.

Remission of rate in certain cases 9.

The appropriate authority may remit in part or in whole either generally or in particular cases, and subject to such restrictions and conditions as he may think fit to impose, the drainage rate imposed on any land within the drainage area which in his opinion does not receive the full benefit of the drainage works within such area.

Mode of recovery 10.

Except as may be otherwise provided by rule under section 16, all sums due in respect of any drainage rate under this

Act shall be collected, so far as the same may be practicable, in the manner provided by law for the collection of land revenue.