2. Liability for costs, apportionment and recovery thereof
Persons liable to pay
46. The total sum found payable under section 45, save so far as is provided in this Act, shall, within a period not exceeding twenty years as the Commissioner of the Division may fix, be paid to the Deputy Commissioner by the owners of the lands benefited or protected by the repairs or works executed and by the persons deemed to be owners under the proviso to clause (f) of section 3.