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(1) In case of any accident happening or being apprehended to a canal, any Canal Officer or any person acting under his general or special orders in this behalf may enter upon any lands adjacent to such canal and may execute all works which may be necessary for the purposes of repairing or preventing such accident. (2) In every such case, such Canal Officer or person shall tender compensation to the proprietor(s) or occupier(s) of the said lands for all damage done to the same. If such tender is not accepted by the affected proprietor(s) or occupier(s) then he may apply to the Collector for revision within thirty days. The Collector after getting report from the Canal Officer shall proceed to award compensation as per the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. (3) Any revision against the orders of the Collector under sub-section (2) shall lie with the State Government to be filed with ninety days of the order of the Collector. The State Government shall decide the matter within ninety days after receipt of revision application, whose decision shall be final.