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(1) All public roads, streets, lanes and paths, the bridges, ditches, dikes and fences, on or beside the same, the bed of the sea and of harbours and creeks below high water mark and of rivers, streams, lakes and tanks, all back-waters, canals and water courses, and all standing and flowing water and all lands, wherever situated save in so far as the same are the property - ________________________________________________________________________ 1.The Act came into force on the 1st day of July, 1971 vide Notification No.E. 829/68 Revenue-i dated 26-6-1971 - Extraordinary Gazette No.69 dt. 28-6-1971. 495 (a) of any person holding under ryotwari tenure or in any way subject to the payment of land tax direct to Government, or (b) of any other person holding land under grant from the Government otherwise than by way of lease or licence, and, as to lands, save also in so far as they are temple site or owned as house- site or backyard, are, and are hereby declared, to be, the property of Government except as may be otherwise provided by any law for the time being in force, subject always to all rights of way and other public rights and to the natural and easement rights of other land-owners, and to all customary rights legally subsisting. (2) All public roads and streets and sites vested in any local authority shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the property of Government. Explanation: -- In this section, “high water mark” means the highest point reached by ordinary spring tides at any season of the year. Levy of assessment of lands unauthorisedly occupied