The appropriate Government may confer such powers and impose such duties onlocal authority and District Magistrate as may be necessary to ensure that the provisions ofthis Act are properly carried out, and a local authority and the District Magistrate may,specify the subordinate officers, who shall exercise all or any of the powers, and perform allor any of the duties, so conferred or imposed, and the local limits within which such powersor duties shall be carried out by the officer or officers so specified.