Section 16

The Executive Officer may, by notice in writing under his hand, require the owner or occupier of any land within such area to provide, either individually or jointly with other owners or occupiers, proper banks or bunds to specified levels and distribution or drainage channels for the supply, drainage, retention or exclusion of water:

Provided that no person shall be required under this section to provide banks, bunds, distribution or drainage channels which will not benefit land whereof he is the owner or occupier.

Such notice shall require the owner or occupier to commence to take the necessary action within a stated time, which shall not be less than fourteen days from the date of the service of the notice, and thereafter to carry out any work specified in such notice without delay.

If default is made in complying with the provisions of such notice, the Executive

Officer may enter upon any such land and cause such action to be taken as is required by the notice and may thereafter certify under his hand the cost thereof, and thereupon the

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amount so certified shall be recoverable by the Executive Officer from the person by whom default was made as aforesaid in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

Any person aggrieved by such notice may within fourteen days of service of such notice appeal to the Committee for the area who, after holding an enquiry, may modify the terms of such notice or extend, in respect of any particular work or part of the land, the time within which the work is to be done.

Obstruction or damage.