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Power of 80[80][District Officer (Revenue)] to delimit the bed and to decide what constitutes such bed. Power to take possession of bed when vested in 81[81][the Provincial Government].— (1) The 82[82][District Officer (Revenue)] shall, for the purposes of every notification issued under sub-section (2) of section 8, fix the limits of the area comprised within the bed of the 83[83][nalah] to which such notification is to apply. (2) Upon the publication of a notification containing any declaration under sub-section (2) of section 8, it shall be lawful for the 84[84][District Officer (Revenue)] to— (a) take possession of the area specified in such declaration; (b eject all persons therefrom; and to (c) deal with such area, while it remains vested in 85[85][Provincial Government], as if it were the absolute property of 86[86][Provincial Government].