SECOND SCHEDULE

CENTRAL ACTS. The Tamil Nadu Compulsory Labour Act, 1858. For section 6, the following section shall be substituted, namely:- "6. Liability of persons refusing to contribute labour to the maintenance of irrigation and drainage works.-(1) Every person owning lands served by any irrigation or drainage work or any work connected therewith shall, whenever required by public notice by the head of the village under the orders of the Tahsildar or other superior Revenue officer, contribute labour for repairing or properly maintaining such irrigation or drainage work or for repairing or properly maintaining any work connected with such irrigation or drainage work. (2) Every public notice given under sub-section (1) shall be in writing over the signature of the head of the village, shall contain the names of the persons bound to contribute the labour together with such other particulars as may be necessary to identify them, and the period or periods during which the labour should be contributed, and shall be widely made known in the village by affixing copies thereof in conspicuous public places within the village, or by publishing the same by beat of drum and by any other means that the head of the village may think fit. Every such notice shall also be published by affixure in the notice board of the offices of the Tahsildar or other Revenue officer under whose orders the notice was given.