1. Short title and commencement.-
(1) This Act may be called the National Waterway (Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals) Act, 1992.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Declaration of Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals to be a national waterway.-
The Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals, the limits of which are specified in the Schedule, is hereby declared to be a national waterway.
1. 1st February, 1993 vide notification No. S.O. 806(E), dated 30th October, 1993, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).
3. Declaration as to expediency of control by the Union of Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals for certain purposes.-
It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the regulation and development of Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals for purposes of shipping and navigation on the national waterway to the extent provided in the Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985.