Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where a local authority on/upon the report of Health Officer is satisfied as regards any area that the buildings in that area are in any respect unfit for human habitation or are by reason of overcrowding, faulty arrangement and design or lack of sanitary facilities or a combination of these factors detrimental to safety and public health, it may by notice declare such area to be a slum area. (2) The local authority may at any time by a written notice require the owner of any area declared to be a slum area under sub-section (1) to carry out all or any of the works of improvement specified in the notice within a specified time. (3) When any improvements required by a notice under sub-section (1) are not carried out to the satisfaction of the local authority, the local authority shall have the power to carry out/cause to carry out the improvements specified in the notice and all expenses incurred thereby shall be recovered from the owner as tax due to him to the local authority. Building Regulations Advisory Committee