(1) Any person. who is required by a notice under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 19 to take any measures, may prefer an objection in writing to the Board within fifteen days from the date of service of the notice on him.
(2) The Board may, after considering the objections (if any) preferred under sub-section (1), withdraw, modify or confirm the notice.
21. Subject to the provisions of section 22, where a notice is modified or confirmed under sub-section (2) of section 20, if any measures required to be taken by the notice, as so modified or confirmed, be not taken, to the satisfaction of the Board within the period fixed by the notice, or within such blither period (if any) as_ may be allowed by the Board, or if any work executed in carrying out such measures be not maintained in good repair Objection against requisi.
Con.
Power to ruminate 'work. eta., in default of owner or orroopiel and to 700011115T saperrees.
10 The Ilimft Bengal Mining Settlements Wealth and Welfare) Art, 1.964.
Applied from declare-.
Lions and orders under sections 19(3) and 20(2).
Imposition of fee, water rate and con.
servaney rate.
Most Ban. A ((:harter / V.—Vuttes of owners and onaapiers of lands, buildings or structures in mining settlements.—Seetions 22, 23.)
to the satisfaction of the Board, or where, in any case, the Board has declared its intention of itself taking any measures under sub-section (3) of section 19, the Board may cause such measures to be taken or such repairs effected in such manner as the Board may think fit, and the expenses incurred therefor shall be recoverable from the defaulting owner or occupier of the land, building or structure concerned, as a public demand.
22. Any person aggrieved by any declaration made under sub-section (3) of section 19 or by an order passed under sub-section (2) of section 20 may appeal to the Commissioner of the Division within which the mining settlement is situate within thirty days from the date of such declaration or order:
Provided that the filing of such an appeal shall not by itself operate, unless the Commissioner so directs, as a stay of execution of any work to be executed in carrying out any measures by the Board during the pendency of the appeal:
Provided further that where any work is executed during the pendency of any such appeal and the appeal is subsequently allowed, the costa of execution shall be borne by the Board.
23s (1) For the purpose of meeting the expenses to be incurred by a Board under this Act, the Board may., in such manner and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed, impose and assess on the owners of a mine or mines, the employees of which reside within the mining settlement, after giving such owners an opportunity of being heard,—
(a) a fee payable by all such owners, and also
(b) a water rate and a conservancy rate, payable by reside within the area or areas in respeef of the owners of mines the employees of which which provision has been made by the Board— in the case of water rate, for the supply of (0 water, and
(ii) in the case of conservancy rate, for the cleansing of private latrines, urinals and cesspools.
(2) The assessment of the fee, water rate and conservancy rate referred in in sub-section (1) shall be made. on the basis of quantity of annual output of the mine, at such rate, not exepeding,—
(i) in the case of the fee, rupees ten per hundred metric tonnes, The West Bengal Mining Settlements (Health and Welfare) 11 Act, 1914.
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ti 'hapter .—Duties of owners and occupiers of lands, buildings or structures in mining sett/aments.— Sertion 24.-1'hapter .—The Mining Settlement Fund.
—Section 25.)
(ii) in the case of the water rate, fifteen paise per metric tonne, and
(iii) in the case of the conservancy rate, twenty-five pause per metric tonne, as the Board niay fix with the previous approval of the State Government.
(3) The fee, water rate or conservancy rate, imposed under this section, shall be recoverable as a public demand.
(4) Subject to the approval of the State Government the Board may, on such terms as may be prescribed, supply water or render conservancy services to private persons, Railway Authority, local authorities and industrial concerns within the mining settlements.