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NATIONAL WATERWAY (KOLLAM-KOTTAPURAM STRETCH OF WEST COAST CANAL AND CHAMPAKARA AND UDYOG-MANDAL CANALS) ACT, 1992
25 of 1992
18th August, 1992
An Act to provide for the declaration of the Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals to be a national waterway and also to provide for the regulation and development of the said Stretch and the Canals for purposes of shipping and navigation on the said waterway and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
(1) This Act may be called the National Waterway (Kollam- Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals) Act, 1992.
(2) It shall come into force on such date2as the Central Govemmernt may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
SECTION 02: DECLARATION OF KOUAM-KOTTAPURAM STRETCH OF WEST COAST CANAL AND CHAMPAKARA AND UDYOGMANDAL CANALS TO BE A NATIONAL WATERWAY
The Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals, the limits of which are specified in the Schedule, is hereby declared to be a national waterway,
SECTION 03: DECLARATION AS TO EXPEDIENCY OF CONTROL BY THE UNION OF KOLLAM-KOTTAPURAM STRETCH OF WEST COAST CANAL AND CHAMPAKARA AND UDYOGMANDAL CANALS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES
It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the regulation and development of Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals for purposes of shipping and navigation on the national waterway to the extent provided inthe Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985-
SCHEDULE 1 LIMITS OF THE NATIONAL WATERWAY (KOLLAM-KOTTAPURAM STRETCH OF WEST COAST CANAL AND CHAMPAKARA AND UDYOGMANDAL CANALS)
The northern limit of the West Coast Canal shall be a line drawn across the river Periyar parallel to Kottapuram road bridge (NH-17) connecting Malinkara and Valiapanikan Thuruthu at a distance of 1.0 kilometer upstream, and the southern limit shall be a line drawn across the Ashtamudi Kayal at a distance of 100 meters south of Kollam jetty, The Champakara Canal starting from the confluence with the West Coast Canal and ending at the railway bridge (railway siding for Cochin Oil Refinery) near Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited, boat basin, The Udyogmandal Canal starting from the confluence with West Coast Canal and ending at the Padalam road bridge (Eloor-Edayar).
Footnotes:
2. 1-2-1993-Gaz. of India, 30-10-1992, Pt. II-S. 3(i), Ext. p. 2 (No. 695).
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