Section 7

The Committee shall classify all land within a drainage or irrigation area according to its utilisation. Agricultural land shall be classified according to the nature of the cultivation that might reasonably be expected thereon. If at any time any land so classified shall be used for a different purpose or, if agricultural land, for different cultivation the

Committee shall forthwith reclassify such land.

The Committee's original classification and all reclassifications shall be prepared in draft and such drafts shall be made available for inspection by the public in the District

Office of the district or the Municipal Council Office of the Municipality in which the land is situated. Public notice of the preparation of such drafts shall be given by a notification in the

Gazette and in such other manner as the Committee may think desirable. Such notice shall also state a date not less than one month after the publication of the notice on which and the time and place at which the Committee proposes to hold a public meeting at which any owner affected by the draft classification may appear and state his objections to it.

After the public meeting referred to in subsection (2) has been held and any objections considered, the Committee shall publish its classification or reclassification which shall then be final. Such publication shall be effected by notice in the Gazette.

Imposition of water rates.