'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1914-1915' [‎190v] (50/150)

For
CHAPTER III.—PROTECTION.
LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY
See—
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION REPORT
PAGES 115—118.
H)R I 9 1 1-1912, part u
. 1.—Course of Legislation.
Nine Acts were passed by the Legislative Council of the Governor of Bombay 1
after receiving the assent of their Excellencies the Governor and the Governor-General ^
published during the year beginning 1st April 1914.
These were :—
(1) Act No. I of 1914 (An Act further to amend the Karachi Port Trust Ad, 1886)
(2) Act No. II of 1914 (An Act further to amend the Bombay Irrigation Ad, 1879),
(3) Act No. Ill of 1914 (An Act further to amend the Bombay Tramways Ad, 1874).
(4) Act No. IV of 1914 (An Act further to amend the Aden Port Trust Ad, 1888),
(5) Act No. V of 1914 (An Act further to amend the Bombay Civil Courts Ad, 1869),
(6) Act No. VI of 1914 (An Act further to amend the Bombay Port Trust Act i
1879).
(7) Act No. VII of 1914 (An Act further to amend the Bombay Land Revenue
Code, 1879).
( 8 ) Act No. VIII of 1914 (A n Act further to amend the Bombay District Municipal
Act, 1901).
(9) Act No. I of 1915 (AnAct to provide for the making and execution of town
planning schemes).
Act No. I of 1914 was enacted with a view to giving legislative effect to various altera
tions proposed by the Committee of the Board of Trustees appointed to suggest amendments
in the Act. I hese consist chiefly of (1) changes necessitated by the fact that a fulltime
Chairman was appointed, so that a salaried Vice-Chairman was no longer required;
(2) provisions giving a few additional powers to the Board, which delegation was considered
expedient owing to the increasing importance of the Board. On these points, the Bombay
Port trust Act, 1879, has generally been followed.
The main object of Act No. II of 1914 was to make better provision for the exercise of
control over the management of certain second class irrigation works, of which there area
large number in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. . These were originally constructed and maintained by the
people themselves, who contributed to the cost of maintenance and repair and regulated the
supply among the contributors by mutual consent. This system having in many cases proved
to be unsuccessful, it became necessary for Government in the interests of the people to take
power to control those works which the people had failed to manage, and a new Part (Part X)
was added to the existing Irrigation Act for this purpose. The enactment provides also for
a thorough enquiry into all existing rights and obligations and the inclusion of the result of
the enquiry in an irrigation record-of-rights.
Act III of 1914 was passed with the object of supplying an omission in the Bombay
ramways Act, 1874, and affording to the grantees under that Act statutory protection, on
the analogy of several legislative enactments in the United Kingdom, against actions at av
to restrain them from carrying out necessary overhauling and repairs on the alleged groun
their creating a nuisance.
Act No. IV of 1914 was passed with a view to reducing the number of ex °f c! °,
members serving on the Board from three to two, as it was felt that the existing number