(1) Any Farmers' Organisation which has taken over the whole or part the operation and maintenance of distributory canal system and the lands within whose jurisdiction are exempted from the payment of irrigation rates under section 2A may, impose and recover a levy of such amount in respect of such lands to cover the cost of operation and maintenance of the distributary canal system and any other work beneficial to the farming community in such area. The levy imposed in relation to a land in respect of which there is an allottee or tenant cultivator or owner cultivator shall be pay able by such allottee or tenant cultivator or owner cultivator, as the case may be.

(2) The provisions of subsection (4) of section 2 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to a levy imposed under subsection (1).

(3) Where any levy is imposed under subsection (1) in respect of a land, the Farmers'' organization within whose jurisdiction such land is situate shall give a written notice of the amount of levy, to the person who is liable to pay such levy under subsection (1)

(4) It shall be the duty of every person or. whom a notice under subsection (3) is given, to comply with such notice within the period specified therein.

(5) Where default is made in the payment of the levy imposed under subsection (1) of this section in relation to a land, the Farmers' Organization imposing the levy shall inform the Divisional Secretary of the Divisional Secretary's Division within, which such lab is situated in writing, and the Divisional Secretary shall proceed to recover the levy in the same manner as provided in Part VII of this Ordinance, and the provisions of that Part shall , mutatis mutandis apply to the recovery of such levy The levy so recovered by the Divisional Secretary shall be transmitted by him to the Farmers' Organization in respect of which such default was made.

(6) Any sums recovered by a Formers' Organization under subsection (1) and subsection (5) may be used by such Farmer's Organization for the purpose referred to in subsection (1).

(1) In respect of every major irrigation work being a part of a inter-provincial irrigation and land development scheme which is specified by the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Irrigation there shall be a Project Management Committee consisting of-

(2) The Chairman of the Project Management Committee shall summon a meeting of the Committee as often as may be necessary and in any case before the commencement of each cultivation season.

(3) The Project Management Committee shall have the power to set up Sue Project Management Committees, where in the opinion of the Project Management Committee it is necessary for better co-ordination of the project at sub-project level .Such Sub-Project Committee shall be presided by a representative of the Farmers' Organizations in the Committee.

(4) It shall be the duty of the Project Management Committee to co-ordinate all project management activities at the project level and sub-project level.

(5) The Project Management Committee may by a special meeting held before the commencement of each cultivation season (hereinafter referred to as the Precultivation Meeting") make recommendations to the Divisional Secretary of the Divisional Secretary's division within which the irrigation work is situated or where the irrigation work covers more than one Divisional Secretary's Division, to the District Secretary on such matters relating to cultivation us :"

(6) The Divisional Secretary or the District Secretary, as the case may be, shall upon receipt of the recommendations of the Project Management Committee under sub section (5), summon a special meeting of the Project Management Committee (herein after referred to as the " Cultivation meeting ") and thereupon the powers conferred on allottees, cultivators or proprietors of lands within an irrigable area by sub section (5) of section 11, shall be exercised by the Project Management Committee at .such meeting. The Divisional Secretary or the District Secretary, as the case may be, may call on any person whose participation is in his opinion useful, to attend such meeting:

Provided that any such meeting shall not he deemed to be valid unless at least two-third of third representatives of Farmers' Organizations in the Project Management Committee are present at such meeting.

(7) Where at a meeting referred to in sub section (6), a decision under paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (5) of section 11 has not been arrived at whether for want of quorum or for any other cause, the power to make such decision shall be exercised by the Divisional Secretary or the District Secretary, as the case may be, who summoned the meeting.'.