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Scheme to bind all owners of land. 7. Subject to any order of the Magistrate, every such scheme shall be binding on all owners of land within the proclaimed area. Delegation to local authority. 8. The Minister may delegate to any local authority power to carry out the operations authorized by the scheme as filed by him or varied by the Magistrate, and to recover from the owners of land within the proclaimed area, according to the apportionment fixed by such scheme, the expenses of and incidental to such operations, in the manner provided by the Rating Act, 1908, with respect to rates ; or he may himself carry out such operations, and recover such expenses in the manner aforesaid : Provided that in recovering such expenses the Minister or the local authority, as the case may be, shall be limited to the proceeds of the sale or letting of the land included in the proclaimed area. Schedule. Enactments consolidated. 1903, No. 28.—The Sand-drift Act, 1903.

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