Invoicing and Payments

For irrigation service provided, the Irrigation Authority sends invoices to planters on their respective areas inside the irrigation project for payments of irrigation dues.

Planters are requested to effect payments within 25 days from date of receipt of the Invoices.

Any delays may be subject to legal actions at the cost of the planters.

Section 19 and 20 of IA Act covering payments of irrigation dues are as follows:

19 Irrigation due in favour of the Authority

  1. For the purposes of this Act, an irrigation due shall be levied on the acreage of land in any irrigation area.
  2. The rate of irrigation due leviable under subsection (1) and the irrigation areas in respect of which it is leviable shall be determined annually by the Minister after consultation with the Board and shall be notified in the Gazette.
  3. The irrigation due leviable under subsection (1) shall be paid in respect of –
    • any land planted in whole or in part with sugar cane, by the broker to whom the sale price of the sugar accruing to the planter is paid without incurring any liability to any person;
    • land planted otherwise than with sugar cane, by the owner or occupier of the land, at such time and in such manner as the Authority may determine.

20 Privilege to secure payment of irrigation due

  1. Any irrigation due payable under section 19 shall be secured by a privilege on the land in respect of which the due is leviable.
  2. A privilege under subsection (1) shall –
    • rank immediately after the privileges enumerated in article 2148 of the Code Napoléon;
    • operate independently of inscription; and
    • bind any person to whom the ownership of the premises may be transferred, whether by purchase, devolution, judgment adjudication (including adjudication before the Master’s Court) or other process of law, assignment, donation inter vivos or will.
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