REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF IRRIGATION, DRAINAGE AND FLOOD PROTECTION
(d) registering FOs;
(e) setting regulations or provisional regulations under this Ordinance;
(f) receiving and safeguarding surplus assets in case of winding up of FOs;
(g) to bring to the notice of the SIDA problems of a recurrent nature within the operation, maintenance and administration of the network and arrange, with the SIDA, for their investigation;
(h) to establish standards of performance for each of the AWBs; and to formally communicate the standard specified to each AWB concerned;
(i) to provide the SIDA, AWBs and FOs with all such information as is in the possession of the Regulatory Authority and is reasonably requested by the Authority for purposes connected with the carrying out of its functions; and information provided to the SIDA, AWBs and FOs under this sub-section shall be provided in such form and in such manner and at such times as the SIDA may reasonably require;
(j) to maintain a register setting out records of all transactions with the AWBs and FOs and to make this register available for examination by the Minister, the SIDA, the AWB concerned and the FOs situated within its command area; and
(k) to act in the capacity of Registrar of FOs, maintaining a central registry of FOs and issuing each FO duly registered with a certificate authenticating its existence as an FO.
76. Board of Management
1) Subject to the overall control and guidance of the General Board, the affairs of the Regulatory Authority shall be managed by a Board of Management consisting of the Managing Director and General Managers as may be determined by the Regulatory Authority.
2) Section 12 shall mutatis mutandis apply to the Board of Management.
77. Powers in respect of charges –
1) The Regulatory Authority may from time to time by order fix maximum charges which SIDA, an AWB or a Farmer's Organisation may recover from a customer in respect of water supplies and drainage services provided by SIDA, that AWB or that FO.
2) It shall be sufficient grounds for the Regulatory Authority to make such an order if the charges to which its order refers as fixed by the SIDA, an AWB or a FO are not in the interests of the financial viability of the irrigation network as a whole or not in the interests of customers in general.
3) It shall be the duty of the Regulatory Authority to publish any order under this section in such manner as it considers appropriate for the purpose of bringing it to the attention of persons likely to be affected by it.
4) An order under this section may make different provision for different cases, including different provision in relation to different persons, circumstances or localities, and may fix a maximum charge either by specifying the maximum amount of the charge or by specifying a method of calculating that amount.
5) Where a person pays a charge in respect of anything to which an order under this section relates and the amount paid exceeds the maximum charge fixed by the order, the amount of the excess shall be recoverable by that person from SIDA, the AWB, or the FO to whom he paid the charge.
78. Powers in respect of drought –
1) The Regulatory Authority, after consulting the SIDA, or the AWB(s) or FOs concerned, may make an order prohibiting or limiting the taking by any body (including an AWB) of water from a source specified in the order if the Regulatory Authority is satisfied that the taking of water from that source shall affect seriously the volume or quality of water available to any other AWB.
2) The Regulatory Authority may expressly specify in their order -
