Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) If the Medical Officer of Health is of ' opinion that the destruction of any hut or shed is Officer of necessary to prevent the spread of any dangerous Health to disease, he may after giving to the owner or occupier destroy huts of such hut or shed such previous notice of his i nd ihede. intention as may in the circumstances of the case appear to him reasonable, take measures for having such hut or shed and all the materials thereof destroyed. (2) Compensation not exceeding the value of the hut as may be assessed by the Commissioner, shall be paid by the Corporation to any person who sustains loss by the destruction of any such hut or shed, but, except as so allowed by the Commissioner, no claim or compensation shall lie for any loss or damage caused by any exercise of the powers confer- •red by sub-section (1). infected bull- , ,, , . . . . ding not. to