For uses of the following types of land for purposes other than water conservancy activities applied for according to law, the approval of the Competent Authority shall be obtained:
1. Land used for activities of an Irrigation Association prior to the coming into effect of this law and whose land use category is water conservancy land.
2. Land that is legally appropriated, purchased at a negotiated price, or expropriated by the Competent Authority for the use of water conservancy.
3. Land which is announced as being in a farmland water conservancy facilities area and whose category is water conservancy land based on Paragraph 1 of Article 5 of this Act.
A detailed inventory of land as mentioned in the previous Paragraph shall be announced by the Competent Authority.

The Enforcement Rules of this Act shall be stipulated by the Competent Authority.

The date when this Act comes into effect shall be stipulated by the Executive Yuan.
Starting from the date when this Act comes into effect, the Act of Irrigation Association Organization shall no longer apply.