Procedure on failure to contribute cost or labour for work to be done by mint labour

(1) Whenever, by local custom or for other good reason, any work connected With irrigation or drainage for purposes of agriculture in a padasekhararn should be done by the joint labour or cast of the proprietors of all the fields benefited by such work, if any such proprietor fails or neglects to do his share of the work or contribute his share of the cost or labour, it shall be lawful for the District Collector, the Punja Special Officer or any other officer authorised by the Government in this behalf, on the application of one or more of the proprietors interested in such work or injuied or likely to be injured by such failure or neglect, to investigate the matter and pass such order as he deems fit, and he may by such order also direct the defaulting proprietor to execute any portion of the work or pay any portion of the cost of the work. (2) If an order under sub-section (1) directs that the defaulting proprietor shall execute a portion of the work, it shall distinctly speCify the portion of the work to be executed, the time within which it should be done, and the estimate of the cost of such work prepaied in such manner as may be prescribed. (3) On the defaulting proprietor refusing or failing to execute such work Within the time fixed in the order, the work may be executed under the order of the District Collector, the Punja Schial Officer or such other officer authorised as aforesaid, and the cost thereof may he recovered from such defaulter.