(1) If, in cons4quence of any work carried out under the scheme, any person (including the Government) other than the owner of the land in which the work is done, is likely to be benefited, such person shall pay to the owner of the land if the work is carried out by him or to the Government if the work is carried out by or under the authority of any department cf the Government or by the Executing Officer, such amount and within such time as the Board of Revenue* may determine :
Provided that, before any person is required to pay any such i~mount, he shall be given a reasonable opportunity of making his representations, if any, in regard to the matter :
Provided further that the payment of ally such amount may be waived by the Government in whole or in pat in respect of any work carried out in land owned by them :
Provided also that the Board of Revenue* may, in its discretion, perm't any such amount to be paid + with interest at such rate as it may determine in equated annual instalments not exceeding twenty in number.
(2) Any amount paid to the Government under subsection (1) shall be credited towards the amount, if any, due to the Government under the proviso to clause ia) of sub-section (1) or under sub-section (2) of section 22.
If default is made in the payment of any amount mder sub-section (1) or of any jnstalment thereof, as the case may be, within the time determined in that behalf in purswce of that sub-section, the amount or where yment i s made in instalments the entire unpaid &ance (which shall be deemed to have become immediately payable on the occurrence of the default) shall be recoverad by the *Board of Revenue and paid to the owner or, as the case may be, the Goverament.
-- -4 * By &ue of section 10 (1) of the Tamil Nadu Board of Revenue Abolition Act, 1980 (Tamil Nadu Act 56 of 1980) any rcferetlce to ths Board of Revenue i8hall be deemed to , be a reference $0 ,the Stat6 Oovsmliranl.
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