Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
{l) As soon as may be, after the State Government has decl red any slum area to be a clearance a1ea, the Aut.hority shall make a slum clearance order in relation to that area ordering the demolition. of each of the building specified therein and requiring, each such building to be vacated within such time as may be specified in the order. ' (2) When a slum clearance order ha s become operative, the owners of buildings to which the order applies shall demoli~h the building1 b~fore the expiration of six . weeks from the date on which the buildings are required by the order to be vacated or before the expiry of such longer pe1iods in the circumstances of the case the Authority may deem reasonabie. (3) If the buildings are not demolished before the expiry of the period mentioned in sub-section (2) the Authority may enter and demolish the buildings and sell the ID'.lterials the-reof after expiry of the period of the order. ( 4) Any expem;es incurred by the Authority in demolishing any building shall, if not eatis!Jed out of the proc{eds of sale of materials thereof be recoverable by the Authority as arrears of land revenue: Provided, however, the expenses not covered by the sale proceeds shall not be recoverable when the owner is himself the occupier. (5) When a slum clearance order has become operative, no land to which the order applies shall be re-developed except in accordance with the scheme approved by the State Government and except in accordance with the conditions contained in the scheme: 93 Provided that an owner who is aggrieved by a restriction of condition so imposed on the use of his land or by a subsequent refusal of the Authority to cancel or modify any such restriction or condition, may appeal to the Appellate Authority whose decision shall be final. (6) No person shall comrrence or cause to be commenced any work in contravention of the scheme approved or a restriction or condition imposed under sub st'ction (5): Provided if any work is commenced, the person concerned may be evicted and no fresh notice shall be necessarv for demolition of such wo::-k or eviction of such per~on . Powe~ of 18 (1) When the land has been cleared of Authority to b 'Id' . d · h I I d redev e I 0 p u1 mgs in accor ance wit a s um c ea ranee or er, clearance the Auchority may at, any time after the expiry of area or any twelve monihs from the date on which the order p~rt there- becomes oi:erative, acquire and re-dPvelop any land 0 • which on the date of the making of the order has not been, or is not in the process of being re-developed by the owner thereof in accordance with the scheme approved by the State Government and . any resfric- tions and conditions imposed under sub-section (5) of Section I 7. (2) The Authority may also decide to acquirr.: land within, adjoining or surrounding clearance area which in its opinion is necessary for the purpose of improvemrnt and re-development of a clearance area. CHAPTER VI Acquisition of land for slum clearance schemes • Power of