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Time for complying with order and power to enforce in default.- (1) Whenever by any notice, requisition or order made under this Act or under any rule, bye-law or regulation made under it, any person is required to execute any work, or to take any measures or do anything, a reasonable time shall be named in such notice, requisition or order within which the work shall be executed, the measures taken, or the thing done. (2) If such notice, requisition or order is not complied with within the time so named, then whether or not a fine is provided for such default and whether or not the person in default, is liable to punishment or has been prosecuted or sentenced to any punishment for such default, the Chief Commissioner may cause such work to be executed, or may take any measure or do anything which may, in his opinion, be necessary for giving due effect to the notice ,requisition or order as aforesaid. (3) If no penalty has been specially provided in this Act for failure to comply with such notice, the said person shall, on conviction, be punished with fine not exceeding five thousand rupees for such offence.