(1)The [State Government] [Words 'Provincial Government' substituted for the words 'Local Government' by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937 and thereafter the word 'State' substituted for the word 'Provincial' by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.] may, from time to time, publish by notification a list of rivers or depressions which it intends to declare to be dead or decayed rivers.
