Section 55
Power to prohibit obstructions or order their removal.
The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873
About this Act
An Act to regulate Irrigation, Navigation and Drainage Northern India.
Whenever it appears to the State
Government that injury to any land or the public health or public convenience has arisen or may arise
from the obstruction of any river, stream or drainage-channel, such Government may, by notification
published in the Official Gazette, prohibit, within limits to be defined in such notification, the formation
of any obstruction, or may, within such limits, order the removal or other modification of such
obstruction.
Thereupon so much of the said river, stream or drainage -channel as is comprised within such limits shall be held to be a drainage-work as defined in section 3.
Thereupon so much of the said river, stream or drainage -channel as is comprised within such limits shall be held to be a drainage-work as defined in section 3.