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The Conservator of Rivers may, with the prohibit Power to previous sanction of the Collector of the district, o,ltivation. by an order in writing require any owner or occupier of land usually cultivated, or cultivated with permis- sion mder section 11, within such river-bed, to abstain from cultivating such land 3[shodd it appear that such cultivation will tend to obstruct or divert the course of the river] ; and it shall be the duty of such owner or occupier to act in obedience to such order. lThis section was substituted by section 2 of the Madrss Rivers Conservancy (Amendment) Act, 1942 (Madres Act XXI c of 1942) for section 11 as substituted for the origind section 11 by section 1 of Madras Act IT of 1886. Madras Aot XXI of 1942 was permanently re-onactod by section 2 of, and the First Schedule to, tho Tamil Nadu Ro-onrccting and nopealing (No. I) Act, 1948 . (Tam11 Nadu Aot VII of 1948). *This word wns substituted for tho word " Provinoial" bf the Adaptation Order, 1960. a 'fh* words were inserted by a. 2 of Madras Act 11 of 1885. $82 Penalty. Construo- tione, plantations, eto., within river-bed without. permission prohibited. Rivera Cmeervancy [I884 : T.N. Act VI Whoever faib to comply with any order made by the Conservator of Rivers under this section shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a flue not exceeding rupees five hundred, or, in default of payment, to simple imprisonment not exceeding three months for every such offence.