(1) If an appeal is admitted the appellate authority may pending the result of the appeal, direct the execution of the order appealed from to be stayed.
(2) A revenue officer or canal officer, who has passed any order, or his successor in office, may direct the execution of such order to be stayed at any time before the ex pi ry of the period prescribed for appeal, if no appeal has been filed.
(3) If execution of any order is stayed under sub-rules (1) or (2), such security may be taken or conditions imposed as the appellate authority or revenue officer or canal officer thinks fit.
11. A petition for appeal or revision shall be presented to, or lodged in the office of the appellate authority:
Provided that any such petition to a Canal Deputy Collector, Sub-Divisional Officer or Executive Engineer, against an order passed under section 47, may be forwarded by registered post, in which case limitation shall run from the date of posting.
Section 23 (7), 25 and 93.
12. Except for reasons to be recorded in writing no canal officer shall inquire into any case at any place out side the local limits of his charge.
13. The State Government or the Chief Engineer, may transfer any case or class of cases from any canal officer to any other such officer competent to deal therewith.
14. A Canal officer may take over any case or class of cases arising under the provisions of the Act or otherwise for enquiry or decision, to any canal officer or canal subordinate, subordinate to him and competent to deal with such case or cases, or may withdraw any case or class of cases from any such Canal Officer or canal subordinate and may deal with such cases or class of cases himself or refer the same for disposal to any other such canal officer or canal subordinate:
Provided that when after inquiry In a case, a report is submitted by a canal officer or canal subordinate to a super/or canal officer or canal subordinate for final orders, the latter may, before passing final orders give the parties an opportunity to be heard.