Section 5 — Power of officers to enter, Survey and excavate.

5.  Power of officers to enter, survey and excavate, -  On the issue of a 
notification under sub-section(1) of Section 3, it shall be lawful for any person 
authorized by the Government or, as the case may be, the Corporation which 
proposes  to  lay  pipelines  for  transporting  water  and  its  servants  and 
workmen,-

(a)  to  enter  upon  the  survey  and  take  levels  of  any  land 
specified in the notification;

(b) to dig or bore into the sub-soil;

(c) to set out the intended line of work;

(d) to mark such levels, boundaries and line by placing marks 
and cutting trenches;

(e) to cut down and clear away any part of any standing crop, 
fence or jungle where otherwise survey cannot be completed 
and levels taken and the boundaries and line marked;

(f) to do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether pipelines 
can be laid under the land:



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Provided that while exercising any power under this section, 
such person or any servant or workman of such person may 
cause as little damage or injury as possible to such land.