Scope of Free Irrigation Service.
Section 3
SEC. 3. Scope of Free Irrigation Service. - Upon the effectivity of this Act. all farmers with landholdings of eight (8) hectares and below are hereby exempted from paying irrigation service fees (ISF) for water derived from national irrigation systems (NIS) and communal irrigation systems (CIS) that were, or are to be, funded, constructed, maintained and administered by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and other government agencies, including those that have been turned over to irrigators associations (IAs). Farmers with more than eight (8) hectares of land, corporate farms, and plantations drawing water for agricultural crop production; and fishponds and other persons, natural or juridical, drawing water for nonagricultural purposes from NIS and CIS, or using the irrigationsystems as drainage facilities, shall continue to be subject to the payment of ISF.