(1) If an owner or other person who is bound to maintain a monument by an agreement executed under section 6 refuses or fails within such reasonable time as the Director may fix, to do any act which in the opinion of the Director is necessary for the maintenance of the monument, the Director may authorise any person to do any such act and the owner or other person shall be liable to pay the expenses of doing any such act or such portion of the expenses as the owner may be liable to pay under the agreement.
Enforcement of agreements.
Power to make order prohibiting contravention of agreement under section 6.
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(2) If any dispute arises regarding the amount of expenses payable by the owner or other person under sub-section (1), it shall be referred to the Government whose decision shall be final.
12. Every person who purchases, at a sale for arrears of land revenue or any other public demand, any land on which is situated a monument in respect of which any instrument has been executed by the owner for the time being under section 5 or section 6, and every person claiming any title to a monument from, through, or under, an owner who executed any such instrument, shall be bound by such instrument.
13. If the Government apprehend that a protected monument is in danger of being destroyed, injured, misused, or allowed to fall into decay, they may acquire the protected monument under the provisions of 12the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act 1 of 1894), as if the maintenance of the protected monument were a public purpose within the meaning of that Act.