(1) Within any area taken up for development under sub-clause (c) of clause (ii) of section 14, the Corporation, or any person empowered in this behalf by the Government by notification in the Official Gazette (hereinafter in this section referred to as “the authorized person”), may, for the purposes of (a) carrying gas, water or electricity from a source of supply to the said area or
(b) constructing any sewers or drains through any intervening area, lay down, place, maintain, alter, remove or repair any pipes, pipe lines, conduits, supply or service lines, posts or other appliances or apparatus in, on, under, over, along or across any land in such areas.
(2) The Corporation or the authorized person may at any time enter upon any land in any such area and in such event the provisions of section 34 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply.
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(3) While exercising the power conferred by sub-section (1), the Corporation or the authorized person shall cause as little damage as possible to property. Full compensation to all persons interested for any damage sustained by them in consequence of the exercise of such power as aforesaid shall be paid, as the case may be, by the Corporation or, in the case of the authorized person, by the Government.
(4) Nothing herein shall authorize or empower the Corporation or the authorized person to lay down or place any pipe or other works into, through or against any building or in any land not dedicated to public use without the consent of the owner and occupiers thereof, except that the Corporation or such person may at any time enter upon and lay or place any new pipe in the place of an existing pipe in any land wherein any ‘pipe has been already lawfully laid down or placed in pursuance of this Act, and may repair or alter any pipe so laid down:
Provided that, nothing in the aforesaid provision shall be construed to mean that the Government is forbidden from having the said land acquired at any time in the normal course.