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(1) The State Government may, by order made in ley down this behalf, empower the Authority or any other person or gasffifites officer to lay down, place, maintain, alter, remove or repair and payment any pipes, pipe-lines, supply-lines, posts or other appliances of compen- or apparatus for the maintenance of supplies and services cation for essential to the life of the community, including supplies of damage- gas, water and electricity, in, on, under, over, along or across any land within Durgapur and also, in continuation of any pipes, pipe-lines, supply-lines, posts or other appliances or apparatus laid down, placed or maintained within Durgapur, in, on, under, over, along or across any other land in West Bengal. (2) The Authority or such person or officer, as the case may be, may at any time enter upon such land for the pur- poses specified in sub-section (1). (3) While exercising any power conferred upon the Authority or any other person or officer under sub-section (1), the Authority or such person or officer, as the case may'be, shall cause as little damage as possible to property, and full compensation to all persons interested for any damage sus- tained by them in consequence of the exercise of such power as aforesaid shall be paid— (i) in the case of exercise of those powers by the Authority or any person or officer under the employment of the Authority,—by the Authority, and (ii) in the case of exercise of those powers by any person or officer not under the employment of the Authority,—by the State Government. Reference