(1) After considering the objections and the report Power oft he and the recommendations of the Inquiry Officer 'and an) Land Imp r o v ~ ma. nt further report which -the Land Improvembnt Boardl ma! Board to require from him, the Land Improvement Board may- sanction or re j ~ c t draft .(a) sanction the scheme with or without modification: schemg.
Provided that a scheme prepared in pursuance of a direction under sub-section (2) of settion 15 shall not be sanctioned by the Land Impovement Board but shall bo submitted to the Government for their sailction ; or
(b) reject the scheme, and direct that, in lieu thereof, a fresh scheme t~ prepared and-submitted for its .- ' .T . I . - sanction, , -. . .+
(2) Where a draft scheme is submitted to the Gdvernment under the proviso to clause (a) of sub-section (I), they may sanction the draft scheme with o r without modi- - . .. ..
fication or may reject it and direct that a fresh scheme - .
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be prepared and submitted for their sanction. .
19. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, ?':if the Soil Conservation Board may, of its own motion and conservasubject to such conditions as may be prescribed, prepare tion Boa d any scheme for any river valley catchment area speci- to prepare Bed in the notification under sub-section (1) of section 1 "chc- a px oviding for all or any of the matters specified in sectl~ . .
ta* Publication 10. ( 1 ) 'l-he scheme prepared by the Soil Conserof the sche ?c. at ion Board urt Jer sectioil 19 or the scheme as sallctioned by the Land Improvement Board or by the Government, as the case may be, shall be published in tlie District I Gazette and copies thereof shall be inade available in every village and at the headquarters of the taluk, in which the lands included in the scheme are situated, at such places and in such manner as the Collector may direct.
(2) On and from the date of tlie publication of the scheme in the District Gazette under sub-section (I), the scheme shall wme into force and shall'havc effect.
(3) The Land Irnprovernent Board in respect of a scheme sanctioned by it or by the Government and the .. Sol; Zonservation Board in respect of a scheme prepared 1 by it may, for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the scheme, make regulations requiring any person or persons or the public generally to take certain action or I to refrain from doing certain acts in respect of any matter suppleme~~tary or incidental to the scheme.
Appointment of Executing Officer.
CHAPTER V.
21. The Land Improvement Board in respect of a scheme sanctioned by it or by the Government and the Soil Conservation Board in respect of a scheme prepared by it shall, when the scheme wmes into force, appoint an of161cer called the Executing Officer to execute the scheme.
Power i o 22. (1) (a) The Land Improvement Board in respect of such works under a scheme sanctioned by it or by the scheme* Government as the Land Improvement Board may, by pneral or special order, specify, and the District Committee m respect of other works under such scheme and' the Soil Conservation Board in respect of works under a scheme . prepared by it, shall, by notice given in the prescribed . form, inform the owner of any land in which s6c~works - i i - : have to be carried *out,the &tails of such works and the date before which the owner of the land shall carry them out e 1959 : T. N. Act 3 11 Lar! J improvenzrrrl ScI~unrrs . 427 1 Provided tilat the Land Impxovement Bcard, the - . , . . - i 1 '.
I. Soil Conservation Board or the, District Committee, as ' i the case may be, may wherever necessary, direct that any - I I . - . . .
work to *be carried out by the owner of the !and shall be ...
wried out by the Executing Officer himself and that the cost or part of the cost of such work shall be recovered - .
from ther wner of the land. \ --z ) -- I
(b) A copy of the notice referred to in clause (a) shall be served in the prescribed manner on sucl2 other person or persons as may, in the opinion of the Land improvement Board or the District Conlmittee or the Soil Conservation Board, as the case may be, be beneefited in consequence of any work to be carried out and thereby become liable to pay such amount as may be determined under sub-section (1) of scction 23.
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(2) If any work is not carried out to the satisfaction I of the Executing Officer before the date fixed in that behalf or if the owner intimates to thc Executing Officer in writing that he is unable to damy out any work before that date, the Executing 0fficek may cause the work to be carried out and recover the cost of the work from the owner.
(3) Any amount payable under the proviso to clause of sub-section (1) or under sub-section (2) shall, at option of tlie person liable to pay it, be paid either in L lumpsum or with interest at such rate a5 may be prescribed, in equated, annual instalments not exceeding twenty in umber :
Provided that wileere a person who elects' to pa!
in instalments, coinmits default in the payment tJ; any i nstalinent, the entire unpaid balance shall become irnrne.
diately payable.
(4) In any land owned by the Governrnel~t, all works slldl' be carried out by, or under the authority of, the department having the control or management of the land, unless the Soil Conservation Board or the Land lmprovenlent Board, as the case may bc, directs the Executing Officer to carry out the works himself.
Liability of per- SOW whoselands are not i ncludod .