Powers of Government to give directions to Board and local authorities

(1) The government may give the Board such directions as in their opinion are necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes of the Act, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the Board to comply with such directions. (2) the Government may give any local authority such directions as in their opinion are necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes of this Act after giving an opportunity to the local authority concerned to state its objections, if any to such directions and after considering the said objections, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the local authority to comply with such directions.