Section 8
Licence to divert water may authorize interference with State land or alienated land
A licence under this Act to divert water from a river in any State may extend to authorizing the licencee to erect, cut, or construct and maintain upon or through any State lands or alienated lands specified in that behalf in the licence any pump, line of pipes, flume, race, drain, dam, or reservoir and, subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be specified in the licence, to take and use the water therefrom in such quantities and in such manner as in the opinion of the State Authority of such State may be necessary for carrying out the purpose of the licence.
(2)
A licensee so authorized as aforesaid may enter upon the State lands or alienated lands so specified as aforesaid for the purposes expressed in such
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licence and carry out all or any of the works thereby sanctioned and exercise all or any of the rights thereby granted; provided that he shall be liable to make compensation to the owner or lawful occupier of any alienated land upon which such work shall be carried out or such rights exercised.