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ORDINANCE VIII OF 2000 BALOCHISTAN CANAL AND DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2000 ORDINANCE VIII OF 2000 An Ordinance further to amend the Balochistan Canal and Drainage Ordinance, 1980 [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 17th November, 2000] No. Legis. 1-54/Law/80, dated 17-11-2000.--The following Ordinance made by the Governor of Balochistan on 13th November, 2000, is hereby published for general information:-- 3. Insertion of new sections 43-A, 43-B, 43-C and 43-D in Ordinance XX of 1980.--In the said Ordinance after section 43, the following new sections 43-A to 43-D, shall be added, namely:-- "43-A. Cropping pattern.--(1) Whenever it is found expedient, for the purposes of checking water-logging or salinity, or for complying with the designed parameters of the concerned canal system, or for any other good cause, the Government may, by notification lay-down a cropping pattern, for cultivation of crops. (2) Such cropping pattern may lay-down percentage of total command area, or percentage of cropping intensity, to be followed for cultivation of specified crops, by each tenant, occupier or landowner. (3) The Government may lay-down such cropping pattern for periods exceeding one cropping season. 43-B. Ban of cultivation.--The Government may, by notification impose ban on cultivation of certain, crops in lands situated outside the canal command area. 43-C. Use of canal water.--Any canal water used for cultivation in violation of the conditions laid-down under section 43-A, shall be deemed to be a use in an unauthorised manner, in terms of section 32 of this Ordinance. 43-D. Penalty.--Whoever cultivates specified crop in violation of the conditions laid down in the notifications issued under section 43-A, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may not exceed three months or with fine amounting to twenty thousand rupees per acre, or with both. The crop sown in the area, in excess of permissible limit, notified under this part, shall also be liable to forfeiture. "