Notification for Prohibition or Restriction in Flood Plain Areas

(1) Provided that no notification under this sub-section shall be issued after the expiry of twenty four months from the date of publication of notification under section 8. Provided further that, if State Government take decision in public interest, that affected land and existing buildings can be protected by executing river bank development, the final notification issued, may be amended as per the requirement by following the procedure prescribed under sections 8,9,10 and 11 (2) Upon the publication of a notification under sub-section (1), notwithstanding anything contained in any law, custom, agreement of instrument, for the time being in force, the prohibition or restriction specified in such notification shall prevail. (3) No person shall undertake any activity within the prohibited area or restricted area except with the previous permission of Flood Zoning Authority: Provided that where a person makes an application to the Flood Zoning Authority for permission under this sub-section to undertake any activity and the Flood Zoning Authority does not within a period of ninety days from the date of receipt of such application, communicate to the said person that permission applied for has been refused, it shall be presumed that he Flood Zoning Authority has granted such permission.