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Power to revoke or modify the permission.— (1) The Competent Authority may either suo moto or upon a complaint received withdraw permission granted under sections 11 or amend any condition or impose a further condition in respect of permission granted under sections 11, or call for removal of ---9--- the display, if:— (i) as a result of a change in the environment or the aesthetics of the neighborhood, streetscape or urban design, the display or the hoarding impairs or interferes with the appearance, beauty or damages, disfigures, spoils or injures the area or the aesthetics of the area in which it is located by reason of its size, intensity of illumination, quality of design, workmanship, material or its existence; (ii) the hoarding or the display constitutes, or has become, a danger to any person or property or traffic safety; (iii) the hoarding or the display is obscuring any natural feature, architectural feature or visual line, traffic signal, street light, CCTV cameras installed by the Government, any building of architectural, historical or heritage significance; (iv) the hoarding or the display or both, or a part of it has fallen due to an accident or any other cause; (v) the hoarding has been erected in contravention of the permission obtained under section 11; (vi) the hoarding has been modified, improved, realigned, relocated or altered without the permission of the competent authority under section 11; (vii) due to any work to be undertaken by the Central Government, the State Government, local authority or a statutory Authority, the hoarding is required to be relocated or removed; (viii) the Competent Authority learns that in the contract executed between an agency for display and an agency for hoarding, either of the parties is unregistered or the registration as on the date of execution of the contract is invalid for whatsoever reasons; (ix) in the opinion of the Competent Authority there is sufficient ground to be recorded in writing for revoking or modifying the permission. (2) The Competent Authority shall send a notice in writing to the agency for display and/or the Agency for hoardings, concerned of its proposed decision and that the Agency may within fifteen days from the date of the notice make a written representation concerning the proposed decision. (3) In the event of revocation of the permission, the hoarding shall be removed by the concerned person or Agency within the period of fifteen days. In the event of failure on the part of the concerned person or Agency to remove the hoarding within the stipulated period, the same shall be removed by the Competent Authority. (4) Any expenses incurred by the Competent Authority in this behalf shall be recovered from the concerned person or Agency as arrears of land revenue.