Section 2

“appropriate authority” means the Ruler in Council or the Yang di-Pertua Negeri in Council of a State;

“irrigation” means the practice of causing water to flow upon, or spread over, or under, the surface of land or of retaining water on or under the surface of land for agricultural purpose and includes drainage for the removal of water which is injurious to agriculture;

“irrigation area” means any area which may from time to time be so declared by the appropriate authority under this Act;

“irrigation water” means water which is put on to or retained on land by means of irrigation works and includes water reaching such land as rainfall;

“irrigation works” includes the construction and maintenance of headworks, main canal, subsidiary canals, distribution channels, drainage channels, banks, bunds, batas, water gates, culverts, sluices, drains and other similar works;

*NOTE—All references to “West Malaysia” shall be construed as reference to “Peninsular Malaysia”

–see the Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1997 [Act A996], subsection 5(2).

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“Land Administrator” has the same meaning as defined in the

National Land Code [Act 56 of 1965];

“occupier” includes a lessee or tenant and the cultivator or person in actual possession, management or control of any land;

“owner” means the registered proprietor of any land in the

States of *Peninsular Malaysia and the legal owner or holder by customary tenure of any land in the States of Malacca and Penang.