Section 14
Section 14
Save as may be expressly authorized under the provisions of any other law no person shall in any State after the commencement of this Act
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erect or build any wall or construct any revetment along the bank of any river or erect any building or structure within fifty feet of any such bank, or within any flood channel declared under this section, except under and in accordance with the terms of a written permission in that behalf from the State Authority;
any such permission may be subject to such conditions and restrictions as the
State Authority thinks fit to impose.
(2)
Where the State Authority is satisfied that the bed of any river in such
State is insufficient to contain the waters thereof in time of such floods as may be reasonably expected, he may by notification in the Gazette declare any land abutting on such river and extending to such a distance from either or both banks as may be specified in such notification to be a flood channel for such river, and may at any time in like manner revoke or vary any such declaration.
(3)
The District Officer or any person authorized thereto by him in writing may enter upon and inspect any buildings or premises to which a permission given under subsection (1) relates.
(4)
Any person who contravenes this section shall be liable to a fine of two thousand ringgit; and any building or construction built or erected in contravention of this section may be removed by order of the State Authority and the cost of such removal shall be recoverable from such person by the
State Authority, or any person authorized in that behalf by the State Authority, by civil suit.
(5)
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to any wall, reventment, building, or structure in existence or in course of construction at the commencement of this Act or the renewal or repair thereof.