5. Power of officers to enter, survey and excavate.

(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: