Section 4. Power to appoint officers

4. Power to appoint officers.— The State Government may from time to time declare, by notification in the Official Gazette, the officers by whom, and the local limits within which, or any of the powers or duties hereinafter conferred or imposed shall be exercised or performed. All officers mentioned in section 3, clause (7), shall be respectively subject to the orders of such officers as the State Government from time to time directs. STATE AMENDMENT Uttar Pradesh Amendment of section 4 of Act No. XVII of 1878.— In the first proviso to section 4 of the Northern India Ferries Act, 1878, as amend in its application to Uttar Pradesh, between the words "two States" and the words "the powers", the words "to which this Act applies" shall be inserted. [ Vide Uttar Pradesh Act IV of 1960, s. 2] (5) "Commissioner" 4. Cf. definition in the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3. (5) "Commissioner".— "Commissioner" means a Commissioner of a division, and includes any officer appointed under this Act to exercise all or any of the powers of a Commissioner; 1(6) "Collector".— "Collector" means the head revenue-officer of a district, and includes a Deputy Commissioner or other officer appointed under this Act to exercise all or any of the powers of a Collector; (7) "Canal-officer".— "Canal-officer" means an officer appointed under this Act to exercise control or jurisdiction over a canal or any part thereof; "Superintending Canal-officer".— "Superintending Canal-officer" means an officer exercising general control over a canal or portion of a canal; "Divisional Canal-officer".— "Divisional Canal-officer" means an officer exercising control over a division of a canal; "Sub-divisional Canal-officer".— "Sub-divisional Canal-officer" means an officer exercising control over a sub-division of a canal; (8) " District".— "District" means a district as fixed for revenue purposes. STATE AMENDMENT Uttar Pradesh Amendment of section 3 of Act No. VIII of 1873.— In clause (8) of section 3 of the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873 (hereinafter called the principal Act) for the full stop a semi-colon shall be substituted and thereafter the following shall be added as new clauses (9) and (10) ; (5) "Commissioner" "(9) 'irrigable command area' means such area of culturable land or grove land which, for purposes of irrigation, can be commanded through a single outlet in a canal or by a single tube-well and the limits of which are fixed in this behalf by the Divisional Canal Officer ; and (10) 'Prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act. [ Vide Uttar Pradesh Act V of 1963, s. 2]