Section 13
Power to carry out works and recover expenses from owners.
The Delhi and Ajmer-Merwara Land Development Act, 1948
About this Act
An Act to provide for the preparation and execution of land development schemes, the reclamation of waste-land and the control of private forests and grass-land, in the Provinces of Delhi and Ajmer-Merwara.
Notwithstanding anything
contained in the scheme, the Board may direct that the work to be carried out or remaining to be carried
out or any land by the owners thereof shall be carried out by the Land Development Commissioner, and
that the whole or any specified part of the expenses of carrying out the work shall be recovered as arrears
of land revenue from the owners of the land in such proportion, at such times, and in such instalments, as
the Board may fix, having regard to the amount to be recovered and the nature and extent of the rights of
the owners in the land.