(1) The Divisional Canal Officer shall, as soon as may be, publish the fact of the rejection of scheme or the particulars of the scheme approved or modified by him under sub-section (2) of section 14 in the prescribed manner and call upon the shareholders or water user association to implement it at their own cost within the period to be specified by him and if the shareholder(s) or water user association fail to implement the same, he shall undertake the construction or implementation of the scheme himself, and recover the cost thereof from the shareholder(s) or water user association in the manner and period to be specified by him. Any sum which remains unpaid, within the specified period for this purpose, may be recovered by the Collector from the defaulting person(s) as arrears of land revenue.
(2) An officer, not below the rank of Sub-Divisional Canal Officer shall check the implementation of scheme at site.
(3) In case underground pipeline scheme if shareholder(s) or water user association fail to implement the scheme, the Divisional Canal officer may follow the procedure as per section 14-A and 14-B of the Punjab Land Improvement Schemes Act, 1963, and recover the cost thereof from the shareholder(s) or water user association in the manner and period to be specified by him. Any sum which remains unpaid, within the specified period for this purpose, may be recovered by the Collector from the defaulting person(s) as arrears of land revenue.
16. An appeal against the decision of the Divisional Canal Officer under sub-section (2) of section 14 shall lie to the Superintending Canal Officer within thirty days from the date of the publication of the scheme under section 15 whose decision shall be final:
Provided that no such order shall be made without affording the person(s) affected an opportunity of being heard and the orders of the Divisional Canal Officer shall not be stayed in ordinary course.