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The Conservator of Rivers may, with thepowerfQ previous sanotion of the Collecttor of the district, direot by an order in writing, require the owner or oooupier ;;g':;tf', of any land within any such river-bed to remove etr, any groynes, buildings, constructions, plantations, grasses, trees or other thing upon such land whioh the mid Conservator may deem to be an obstruotion to the course of the stream of such river ; and it .i shall be the duty of such owner or occupier to act in oompliaice with such order within a time to be mentioned in such order : Provided that, in the case of the removal of any building being so ordered, it shall be open to the owner or other person in charge thereof to appeal, through the Collector of the district, against suoh order to the 2[Board of Revenue] within sixty days from the date of the receipt of such order ; and in such case the order shall remain in abeyance until kk such appeal shall have been decided by the 2[Board of Revenue]. 7- These words wero substituted for tho words '' ~rohibited by the metion" by seotion 3 of the Madras Rivers Conservancy (Amend- ment) Aot, 1942 (Madras Act XXI of 1942), re-ended 4 by section 2 of, and the Bimt Schedule to, the Tamil Nadu Re- enscting and Repotding (No. I) Act, 1948 (Tamil Nadu Act VII of 1948). 2 These words were substituted for the words " Governor in ! Council " by section 2 of the Medm RiversConservsncy (Amend- ment Act, 1936 (Madraa Act XXII of 1936). 284 Rivers Oonaervwwp . [IS84 : T.N. A B ~ V Notioe of every appeal under this seotion, together with a copy of the petition of appeal, shall be sent by the appellant to the conservator of Rivers at the time the appeal is sent to the Collector. Penelty. Whoever fails to comply with any order issued by the Conservator of Rivers under this section shall be liable, on oonviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding rupees one thousand, or, in default of payment, to simple imprisonment for a period not exoeeding s k months for every such offence. Pertioders