Bare ActsThe Assam Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1959

Section 16

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(1) When the State Government upon a report declare any from the Authority or other inform; tion in its slum b area eossession, is satisfied in respect of any slum area ~leara:ce a that the most satisfactory method of dealing with area. conditions in the area is the demolition of all the buildings in the area, it shall by an order notified in the Official Gazette, declare the area to be a clea- rrancc: area, that is t'.> say, an area to be cleared of all buildings in accordance with the provision of this Act: Provided th~t any building iri t}ie area which is not unfit for human habitation or dangerous or inju- rious to health may be excluded from the declaration if th_e Authority so recommends. Slum clea- rance order 92 (2) The State Government shall forthwith transmit to the Authority ' a copy of the declaration under this section. (3) After an area has been declared to be a clea- rance area, the State Government shall ask the Authority to prepare a developmerit scheme for that area and to submit the same to the State Government for its approval within a period of six months from such declaration. The State Government m ·Y refuse to approve or approve' with such modification as it may deem necessary, for the implementation of the object of this chapter. (4) The State Government on approval of the development scheme shall publish it in the Official Gazette and it shall become l')perative from the date of such publication.

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