(1) The highway authority may, if it is considered essential Regulation

in the interests of safety of convenience of traffic, regulate or divert of division any existing right .of accessto a highway across land lying between of xl a the control line and the highway boundary. . access.

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1. (2) Where an existing right of access is diverted, the point at which alternative access is given to the highway shall not be unreascnably distaot from the existing point of access.
2. (3) In the case of existing village tracks and lanes giving access to a highway to right angles, the alternative access that may be provided shall as far as possible have a diagonal approach to the highway. ' Compen- 17. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the: 3 time being in force, no person shall be entitled to claim any compen- sation for any injury, damage or loss caused or alleged to have beer. caused as aresult of :
   • (a) the restrictions imposed against the erection or re-erectiom: of a building or the making or extending of any excavatiom or the laying out of any means of access on or across lard lying in between the control line and the middle of a highway under Sub-section (1) of Section 13 or sub-sectiom
3. (1) of Section 14;
   • (b) the regulation or diversion under Section 16 of the existing’ rights of access across lands lying within the control line and the highway boundary, and
   • (c) the refusal of permission to the laying out of new means of access to a limited access bighway under sub-section
4. (3) of Section 15. Provided that compensation shall be payable by the highway authority;
5. (1) where in compliance with the notice served by the highway authority under sub-section (2) of Section 13 a building or part thereof has been set back to the building lice of apy highway, and
   • (ii) where permission to erect or re-erect a building im: the area lying in between the control line and building line of ahighway has been finally refused under Section 14.
6. (2) Wheie compensation js payable uncer the proviso to sub- section (1), the claimant way, within three mcnths of the date of notice issued by the highway authority under sub-section (2) of Section 13 or within three months of the date of final refusal of permission under Section 14, as the case may be, make to the State Government his claim for compensation. )
7. (3) On receipt of the claim under sub-section (2), the State Government shall transfer it for dispose] to an officer exercising the powers of a Collector under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
8. (4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to preclude the scttlement of a claim by mufual agreement, 13