Time for complying with notice, order, etc. and power to enforce in default

Time for complying with notice, order, etc. and power to enforce in default. -

1. (1) Whenever by any notice, requisition or order made under this Act or under any rule, bye-law or regulation made thereunder, any person is required to execute any work or to take any measures or to do anything, a reasonable time shall be named in such notice, requisition or order, within which the work shall be executed, the measures taken or the thing done.
2. (2) If such requisition or order is not complied with within the time so named, -
   • (a) the Executive Authority or the Commissioner or the Secretary, as the case may be, may cause such work or other thing to be executed; and
   • (b) may recover such expenses as are reasonably incurred by the Executive Authority or the Commissioner or the Secretary, as the case may be, in doing so, from the person concerned as if it were an arrear of land revenue due on the land or building concerned: Provided that it shall be in the discretion of the Executive Authority or the Commissioner or the Secretary, as the case may be, to withhold recovery of such expenses where the person concerned may not be in a position to pay them.