(1) In order to ensure the safety of any bridge or the approaches thereto constructed under this Act, the Commissioners may, after consultation with the chief executive officer of the municipal body concerned, the General Manager of the Calcutta Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority and the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta, by notification, prohibit the sinking of tubewells within such distance from the piers of such bridge as may be specified in the notification.
(2) The Commissioners may, by order to be served in such manner as may be prescribed, direct the removal, within such time as may be specified in the order, of any tube-well which is, in their opinion, likely to endanger the safety of any bridge or approaches constructed under this Act.
Penalty. 29. (1) Whoever contravenes the provisions of section 14 or section 15 shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
(2) Whoever contravenesthe provisions of any notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 28 or fails to comply with any direction made under sub-section (2) of that section shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention or failure, with additional fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every day during which such contravention or failure continues after conviction for the first such contravention or failure.
The Hooghly River Bridge Act, 1969. 9 XXXVI of 1969.]
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30. k! State Government may, after consultation with the t'ommissioners, give to the Commissioners such directions relating to the performance of their functions and duties under this Act as appear to the State Government to be requisite in the public interest and the Commissioners shall give effect to such directions.
3.1. • (1) The State Government may., by notification, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular; and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing- power, such rules may provide for all or any of the matters which are to be or may, under any provision of this Act, be required to be provided for by rules.
(3) Any rule made under this. Act may provide that any person committing a breach thereof shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may 'extend to one hundred rupees and in the case of a continuing breach with an additional fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees for every day during which such breach continues after conviction for the first such breach.
Direotions by State Govern- Power to make mks.
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