(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
89. The Government may appoint a committee known as the Building Regulations Advisory Committee for the purpose of advising the Government on the exercise of the powers to make building regulations and on other subjects connected with building regulations.
CHAPTER – VIII FOOD SANITATION Provisions supplementary to other enactments
90. The provisions of this chapter are in addition and supplementary to the provisions in Central and State enactments, orders, rules and regulations in force and shall not mean or be interpreted to mean anything contrary to or in contravention of any such provision, order, rule or regulation.
66 Requirement as to licences