Section 40: Drawing water from canal for personal use
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
40. Drawing water from canal for personal use
(1) Any person may draw water from any open part of a canal for the
use of himself, his family, and domestic establishment and animals used by
him or his family.
(2) A person who has no right to a portion of the water of a canal shall
not draw water from the canal by means of any pipe, canal or drain, or with
the aid of any machinery, or for irrigating or watering any kind of crop or any
garden or other ground, or for use in carrying on any manufacture.
(3) Nothing in this section shall authorise any person to enter on private
property, without the owner’s consent, for the purpose of drawing water
from a canal.