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Regulation on diversion of rivers, inter-basin transfer of water, etc—(1) No person or agency or a local authority or any other authority shall divert any river or interlink two or more rivers or effect inter-basin transfer of water from such rivers without obtaining prior permission from the Government. * (2) Where any structure is constructed in or across a never for the purpose of diversion or linking of such never the Government or such officer or authority as the Government may authorize in this behalf shall have the right to remove such structure and to recover the cost of such removal from the person or authority responsible for such construction 7 Prohibition of quarrying of sand in water courses —No person shall quarry sand in any area in a water course within a distance of five hundred meters from any dam, check dam, reservoir or any other structure or * construction on or across such water course owned or controlled or maintained by Government for the purpose of irrigation’ Provided that nothing m this section shall apply to collection and removal of silt and sand from the reservoir or the water spread area of a dam or check- dam by the Water Resources Department for the maintenance of such dam or check dam CHAPTER III CONSTRUCTION OF IRRIGATION WORKS AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION 8 Construction and commissioning of irrigation works by Government—(1) Where the Government consider that it is necessary, in the * interest of the general public, to construct an irrigation work of any kind on any land, the Government may, by notification, declare their intention specifying the land which is proposed to be covered by such irrigation work (2) Where the Government consider that an irrigation work constructed * by them should be commissioned partly or fully, the Government shall publish in the Gazette a notification to that effect containing such particulars as may be prescribed