Section 23: Any person who- Offences.

(i) wilfully obstructs any duly authorised person in carrying out any order of a Water Board or in entering upon any lands, or (ii) wilfully blocks up or obstructs or causes to be in any way blocked up or obstructed any channel, water course, works or apparatus used constructed or erected for the purposes of any scheme, or (iii) wilfully cuts, damages or otherwise interferes with any bank or side or other part of any works constructed or in course of construction for use in connection with any scheme, or I748 Institution of proceedings. Courts before which charges may be brought. Native Courts jurisdiction. Cap. 8. (iv) wilfully causes waste of water conserved for the purposes of any scheme, or (v) wilfully and wrongfully draws off or converts to his own use any such water, or (vi) negligently allows any animal to stray upon the banks or sides of any irrigation or drainage works used or constructed for the purposes of any scheme, or (vii) without previous permission in writing given by the Water Board or its authorised officer shall drive, draw, or push, or cause to be driven drawn or pushed any vehicle along the banks or sides of or shall use or cause to be used any boat, vessel, raft or float or cause to be floated any wood or other material on any canal or drain used or constructed for the purposes of any scheme, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three months, or on conviction on information by the Supreme Court in the Protectorate to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three years.