(1) Any person aggrieved by any decision or order of the Highways authority under Section 32 may, within such period as may be prescribed, appeal to the State Highways Authority.
(2) The State Highways Authority may suspend the execution of any decision or order, pending the exercise of its power under this section in respect thereof.
Notice to owners and persons interested.
Inquiry and order.
Increase in value and betterment charges· Reference against order of Highways Authority Under section 35
CHAPTER VII.
LEVY OF BETTERMENT CHARGES.
34. Where any work, which the Highways authority is empowered to undertake, in relation to any highway, by or under the provisions of this Act is undertaken, it shall give notice to the persons known or believed to be the owners of. or interested in, the lands benefited by such work, requiring them to appear before him either personally or by an agent, at a time and place therein mentioned (such time not being earlier than fifteen days from the date of receipt of notice) to state their objections, if any, to the imposition and recovery of betterment charges on such lands:
Provided that no such notice shall be given, unless the Collector, with the previous sanction of the Government, has declared that the value of such lands is likely to increase or has increased by reason of such work.
35. On the date fixed under section 34 or on such other date to which the inquiry may be adjourned, the Highways Authority shall, after holding a formal inquiry and after hearing the objections, if any, stated by the persons as required by the notice under section 34, make an order. Such order shall specify-
(a) the lands benefited by the work referred to in section 34;
(c) the increase in the value of such lands by such work;
(d) the amount of the betterment charges leviable on each or the said lands;
(e) the date from which such betterment charges shall be leviable:
Provided that no betterment charges shall be leviable in respect of any land-
(i) which is unsuitable for development as a building site, or
(ii) which is situated beyond a distance of two hundred meters from the middle of the highways on either side.