Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The l[State Government] may from time to time by notification in the 2[0fficial Gazette] and in the Gazette of every district in which any part of the river is situated, alter, extend or rostrict the limits of any such river-bed, and the altered limits shell be marked in the charts and defined in manner prescribed in section 7 : Provided that no such alteration shall be made until full particulars thereof shall have been publicly exhibited and any objections made thereto disposed of by the l[State Government] as provided for in the said section. 1 The words " Provinoial Government " were substituted for the words L'C40veraor iz Council" by the Adaptation Order of 1937 and the word "State was substituted for "Provincial " by the Adaphtion Order of 1960. 4 These words were substituted for the words " Fort St. Cfeolgo Uagette " by the Adaptation Order of 1937. 1884 : S.N.. Aet ,flI] . River8 Coras&+valtcy $81 '[li. After such surveys have been c omplebd Prohibition and approved and the notification as provided by of new oulti- vation on this Act made by the a[State] &~e~IIment, land land in bed within the limits of a river-bed as defined in section 7 ;e;:Ified which has not been cultivated for two years previous to the date on which this Act is applied to the river, shall not, without the previous permission of the Conservator of Rivers in writing, be cultivated, and it shall not be lawful without such permission to cultivate within the limits of a river-bed any new formation of land. Whoever commences or carries on, or attempts Penalty. to carry on, any cultivation in contravention of this section and of a notice from the Conservator to desist, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and, in default of payment of fine, to simple imprisonment not exceeding three months. Explanation.-'C~dtivstion' shall, for the purposes of this Act, include the growing of plants which require the ground to be ploughed once a year or at shorter intervals and which are ordinarily removod at the end of the season but shall exclude 'plantation' as explained in section 13.1