Free Irrigation Service Act 2017

This Act provides for free irrigation service. All farmers holding eight hectares and below are exempted from paying irrigation service fees for water derived from national irrigation systems and communal irrigation systems that were, or are to be, funded, constructed, maintained and administered by the National Irrigation Administration and other government agencies. Farmers with more than eight hectares of land and other persons drawing water for non-agricultural purposes shall continue to be subject to the payment of the irrigation service fees.