(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 reasonable 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 addition or alteration as has been made, as the case may be, within 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 structure, 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.
6. Where the prescribed authority is, upon the report from any of its officers or otherwise, satisfied that any hut or other structure in any slum area is, by reason of any omission to mal;c the necessary repairs, or by reason of any damage or, sanitary inconvenience or any impediment to the flow of natural light or air, unfit for human habitation, it may serve upon the owner of such hut or other structure, a notice requiring him to carry out within such time, not being less than sixty days, as may be specified in the notice, such measures as, in its opinion, are necessary to render such- hut or other structure fit for human habitation.
7. Where sewer mains exist or have been laid within one hundred metres of any service privy or urinal in any hut or other structure or on any land appurtenant thereto within a slum area, the prescribed authority may serve on the owner of such hut, other structure or land, a notice requiring him—
(a) to get such privy connected with the sewer mains, or
(b) in the ease of a urinal, either to close it or to get it connected with the sewer mains, within such time, not less than sixty days, as may be specified in the notice.
8. Where, in any slum area, public conveniences connected either with the sewer mains or any septic tank exist or have been provided within such distance of any hut or other structure as the prescribed authority considers reasonable, Power to require the carrying out of certain measures.
Power to require service privy or urinal to he connected with sewer mains.
Power to direct d is continuance of setrvirtn THE CALCUTTA GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY, .1 ANUARY 25, 1971 [PART V Power of prescribed authority to cause certain works to be done.
Improvement schemes.
Right of user to rest in State Government or prescribed authority.
sixty days, .as may .be specified in the notice, to discontinde the use of any service privy or urinal existing therein or on any land appurtenant thereto, and, if necessary, to demolish such service privy or urinal.