Entry for inquiry

Whenever it shall be necessary to make any inquiry or examination in connection with a proposed canal or with the maintenance of an existing canal, the Canal-Officer and any person acting under the general or special order of any such Canal-Officer, may— (a) enter upon such land as he may think necessary for the purpose; (b) exercise all powers and do all things in respect of such land as he might exercise and do, if the Government had issued a notification under the provisions of section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894), to the effect that the land in that locality is likely to be needed for a public purpose; and (c) set up and maintain water-gauges and do all other things necessary for the prosecution of such inquiry and examination. The boundary marks to be fixed under section 17 shall be in stones or concrete blocks of 15.0cm x 15.00cm x 75.0cm and the said marks shall be fixed at every point where the boundary of the lands for the field channels crosses the survey number or sub-division of a survey number, at every corner of the alignment and at such other points as the Canal-Officer may deem necessary.