Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where any work in connection with the erection of a new hut or other structure or addition to, or alteration in, an existing hut or other structure, has been commenced* is being carried on, or has been completed, in contravention of the provisions of section 4, the prescribed authority may,, after giving the owner of the hut or other structure, a reason- able opportunity of being heard, serve a notice upon such owner requiring him to. demolish so much of the new hut or other structure as has been erected or so much of the addi- tion or alteration as has been made, as the case may be, with- in such time as may be specified in the notice. (2) On the failure of an owner to comply with the notice referred to in sub-section (1) within the time specified therein, the prescribed authority may cause the new hut, other struc- ture, addition or alteration specified in the said notice to be demolished and recover the expenses of such demolition from such owner as if such expenses were a public demand.