Gujarat Land Improvement Schemes Act, 1942
Chapter III EXECUTION OF THE SCHEME.
Chapter III EXECUTION OF THE SCHEME.
11. Power to enforce scheme
(1) After a scheme has come into force under section 10, the Board or, as the case may be, the Company shall appoint an officer to execute it. (2) Every owner of land included in the scheme shall pay the costs or part costs, as the case may be of the works which under the scheme are carried out by the Government or, as the case may be, the Company in his land at the cost or part cost of the owner. (3) If any owner of the land included in the scheme desires to carry out himself any works which under the scheme are to be carried out in his land by the Government or, as the case may be, the Company at the cost or part cost of the owner, he shall give notice in writing to that effect to the Executing Officer within seven days of the publication of the scheme in the village under section 9. (4) On receipt of such notice, the Executing Officer shall inform the owner of the works which are to be carried out in his land, and shall fix the date before which the owner shall carry out the works. (5) If such owner fails to carry out any work to the satisfaction of the Executing Officer before the date fixed by him or at any time expresses in writing to the Executing Officer his inability to do so, the Executing Officer may himself get the work carried out and the expenses incurred by the Executing Officer for the purpose shall be recovered from the owner. (6) Where the owner of any land included in the scheme is the Government, the Department of Government which has the control or management of such land, or the Executing Officer directed in this behalf by the Board, the State Government or the Company, as the case may be, shall carry out the works which the Government is liable to carry out under the Scheme.
Chapter III EXECUTION OF THE SCHEME.
12. Liability of persons whose lands are not included in scheme to contribution.
(1) If, in consequence of any work carried out under the Scheme any person, including the Government other than the owner of the land in which the work is done, is likely to be benefited, he shall pay such amount as the State Government or the Company may determine as contribution to the owner of the land, if the work has been carried out by the owner, or to the State Government or the Company, if the work has been carried out by the Executing Officer : Provided that the State Government may excuse payment of such contribution in whole or in part in respect of any work carried out by it in land belonging to the Government : Provided further that where the work is carried out at the expense of the Company and the State Government excuses payment of the contribution, the State Government shall pay to the company an amount equal to the amount of the contribution so excused. (2) The amount shall be paid within such time as may be specified by the State Government or, as the case may be, the Company.
Chapter III EXECUTION OF THE SCHEME.
12A. Penalty.
Any person who contravenes or causes any contravention of any of the provisions of a Scheme which has come into force under section 10, or any of the regulations made under section 10A, or does any act which causes damage to any of the works carried out under the Scheme, or fails to fulfil any liability imposed upon him under section 13 or 13A or sub-section (4) of section 25 or of section 25A shall on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or with simple imprisonment for a period which may extend to one month, or with both.
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