Special powers in respect of over crowding area

Special powers in respect of over crowding area. (1) If the Council is of opinion that risk of disease has arisen or is likely to arise either to any occupier in, or to any inhabitant in the neighbourhood of, any part of the municipal area by reason of any of the following defects, namely:— (a) the manner in which either buildings or blocks of buildings, already existing or projected therein, are, or are likely to become, crowded together; or (b) the impracticability of cleansing any such buildings or blocks of buildings, already existing or projected; or (c) the want of drainage or scavenging, or the difficulty of arranging therein for the drainage or scavenging of any such buildings or blocks as aforesaid; or (d) the narrowness, closeness, bad arrangement or bad condition of the streets or buildings or group of buildings, the Council may, if any of its powers are not withdrawn under the last preceding section, exercise the following powers, namely:—