Reconstruction of new building by co-operative society.

(1) In preparing the plans and estimates of the building to be reconstructed it shall be the duty of the co-operative society to see that all the occupiers in the building proposed to be demolished who have joined the co-operative society shall, as far as practicable, be provided in the reconstructed building accommodation with a floor area equivalent to their floor areas in the old building, but in no case exceeding seventy square metres of plinth area to any occupier. (2) Where the co-operative society proposes to carry out structural repairs to the building and the building or any part thereof is required to be vacated, or to reconstruct a building and the building is required to be demolished, the occupiers thereof, on being called upon by a notice in writing by the co-operative society, shall vacate the tenements in their occupation within the period specified in such notice, and upon failure of the occupiers to so vacate the tenement, the co-operative society may request the Board to take or cause to be taken necessary steps to evict such occupiers from the buildings and on receipt of such request the board may take or cause to be taken necessary steps to get the building or part thereof, as the case may be, vacated and the Board shall exercise in this behalf the powers under clause (a) of section 77 and where an occupier to whom the Board has served a notice to vacate the premises in his occupation fails to vacate the same within the period specified in such notice, the Board may use or caused to be used such force as may reasonably, be necessary therefor. (3) The co-operative society shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, reserve and allot, in the new building such percentage as is specified in the Third Schedule to this Act of the surplus area in the new building determined on the basis of the difference between the floor space index availed of by it while reconstructing the building and the floor space index availed of by it while reconstructing the building and the floor space index that had been utilised in the construction of the old building, for housing such dishoused occupier from other cessed demolished buildings as may be nominated by the Board and upon such nominations, the nominated occupiers shall be accepted by the co-operative society as its members in accordance with its bye-laws, and shall not dispose of tenements covered by such reserved surplus area to other. If any tenements are rendered surplus because of any of