Section 8

The Yang di-Pertua Negeri may by order impose upon all or any land within a drainage or irrigation area rates, hereinafter called water rates. Such water rates shall be imposed in accordance with the classification made under section 7.

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Upon such publication all owners of such land shall become liable to pay water rates. Payment will be due as set out in sub-sections (3) and (4) of this section.

Water rates imposed upon land classified for the cultivation of padi shall become payable three months after the cessation of the irrigation season fixed under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 4 in respect of such land:

Provided that water rates shall be remitted until irrigation water has been available on such land or the area has been drained for a period sufficiently long to allow three successive annual crops to be planted and gathered.

Water rates imposed upon land classified for any purpose other than the cultivation of padi shall become payable on the first day of January next following the date of publication of the order of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri under subsection (1) and thereafter on the first day of January of each succeeding year.

Reduction or remission of water rates.