Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(j) Where the erection of any building in bSung.0 an industrial area, industrial estate, commercial estate or growth centre has been commenced or 60 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY. FEB. 14, 1991 is being carried on, or has been completed, or any- existing building is altered in contravention of the terms on which such building or the land on which it stands is held or granted under this Act, any officer of the Corporation empowered by it in this behalf may, in addition to any prosecution that may be instituted under this Act, make an order directing that such an erection shall be demolished by the owner thereof within such period not exceeding two months as may be speci fied in the order, and on the failures of the owner to comply with the order, the officer may himself cause the erection to be demolished and the expenses of such demolition shall be recoverable by the Corporation from the ow ne r: Provided that no such order shall be made unless the owner has been given a reasonable opportunity to show cause wh y the order should not be made. (2) An y person aggrieved by an order made under sub-section (1) may prefer an appeal against that order within thirty days from the date thereof to the Corporation, and the Corporation may after hearing th'e parties to the appeal either allow or dismiss the appeal or reverse or vary any part of the order. (3) The decision of the Corporation on the appeal and subject only to such decision, the order made by the officer under sub-section (1) shall be final. PoWhr-id? 37.(1) Where the erection of any building op°elraHon.insin a n industrial area or industrial estate or com mercial estate op growth centre has been comme nced, or is being carried on, or any existing bu ilding is altered, in contravention of the terms on which such building or the land on which it stands is held or granted under this Act, any officer of the Corporation empowered in this behalf may, in addition to any prosecution that may be instituted under this Act, make an order THE ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORhlNARV FEB 14 1991 61 requiring the building operation in relation to such erection to be discontinued on and from the date of the service of the order. (2) Where such building operations are not discontinued in pursuance of the requisition under sub-section (1), the Corporation or the officer empowered as aforesaid may require any police officer to remove the person by whom the erection of the building has been commenced and all his assistants and workmen from the place of the building within such time as may be specified in the requisition and such police officer shall comply with the requisition accor- dinrtlv >5^ « (3) After a requisition under sub-section (2) has been complied with, the Corporation or the officer empowered as aforesaid may depute by a written order, a police officer or an officer, or employee of the Corporation to watch the place in order to ensure that the erection of the buil ding is not continued. (4) An y person failing to comply with an order made under sub-section (1) shall, on con viction, be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day during which such non-compliance continues after the service of the order- (5) No compensation shall be payable to any person for any demage or loss which he may sustain inconsequence of any odrer made under this section. who, whether at his construcUon