section 35
Manner of realization of water charges, fees or fines
The Sikkim Water Supply and Water Charges Act, 2025Infrastructure202543 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The competent authority may by notice require the owner or occupier of the premises to pay within such period the charges, fees or fines on account due and recoverable from such owner or occupier from the date of receipt of the notice.
- (2) Any person who has been convicted of an offence against this Act or any rule made hereunder shall, notwithstanding any punishment to which he may have been sentenced for the said offence, be liable to pay such compensation for any damage to the property of the Department resulting from the said offence as the Court may consider reasonable.
- (3) Save as the certificate issued under section 18, and section 23, in the event of a dispute regarding the amount of reasonable compensation, payable under sub-section
- (8) such amount shall, on application made to him be determined by the competent Court before whom the said person was convicted of the offence; and on non-payment of the amount of compensation so determined the same shall be recovered under a warrant from the said Court as if it were a fine imposed by the Court on the person liable thereof and remit it to the competent authority.
- (4) Where the owner or occupier of the premises fails to pay the amount due from him within the period specified in the notice issued under sub-sections
- (1) the competent authority may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovery, prepare a certificate indicating the amount due from such owner or occupier and send the same to the Court having competent jurisdiction of the area in which the premises or land is situated.
- (5) The Court to whom the certificate is sent shall realize the amount specified in such certificate as if it were a fine imposed by such Magistrate and remit the same to the competent authority.
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