Notice to owners and persons interested

Where any work, which a Highway Authority is empowered to undertake on a highway by or under the provisions of this Act, is undertaken, the officer authorized by the State Government in this behalf shall give notice to the persons known or believed to be the owners of, or interested in the land benefited by a work, requiring them to appear before him either personally or by an agent at a time and place therein mentioned (such time not being earlier than thirty days from the date of notice) and to state their objections, if any, to the imposition and recovery of betterment charges on such land:

Provided that no such notice shall be given unless the Highway Authority with the previous sanction of the State Government has declared that the value of such lands is likely to increase or has increased by reason of the construction of such work.