Section 5. Power to survey and carry on kans eradication operations

(1) After 30 days of the date of publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of section 3 in respect of any area, and where any objection has been filed under section 4 after the disposal of such objection, it shall be lawful for the Kans Officer and his subordinates or workmen authorized by him in this behalf to — (a) enter upon and survey and take levels of any land in the kans area ; (b) to dig or bore into the sub-soil of any such land ; (c) to set out the boundaries of the lands included in the kans area ; and (d) to do all acts necessary for the purpose of kans eradication operations therein. (2) The work relating to kans eradication operations shall be completed within one year from the date of publication of notification under section 3. (3) Where kans eradication operations have been completed in all the lands included in any kans area the State Government shall publish a notification in the official Gazette to that effect and thereupon the kans eradication operations shall be deemed to have been closed and from the date the area shall cease to be a kans area.