Section 6

All public streets, public sewers, public canals, public surface and storm water drains and public bridges and the pavements, stones and other materials thereof, and also all erections, materials, implements and other things provided for them shall be vested in the Government for the purposes of this Act.

The Minister may declare by notification in the Gazette that any unnavigable river or stream outside the limits of the port, together with such means of access thereto and along the same as are set forth in the declaration, is required for the purposes of this Act, and thereupon the river or stream including its bed specified in the declaration and the land forming that means of access shall become vested in the Government and shall be maintained and cleaned at the expense of the Government.

The Government shall make full compensation to the owner of any land for any damage which the owner sustains by reason of any such declaration as in subsection (2) mentioned and, if any dispute arises touching the amount of compensation, it shall be ascertained in the manner hereinafter provided:Provided that the owner shall not be entitled to any compensation for such damage under any other written law for the time being in force.