Power of prescribed authority to require execution of works of improvement to slum areas.

(1) Where the prescribed authority is satisfied that at a reasonable expense. (a) any slum area or any part thereof is capable of being improved so as not to be a source of danger to the health, safety or convenience of the public of that area; or (b) any building being unfit for human habitation in a slum area can be rendered fit for human habitation. It may serve upon the owner of the slum area or part thereof or of the building, as the case any be, a notice requiring him within such time not being less than sixty days, as may be specified in the notice, to execute the works of improvement specified therein: Provided that where the owner of the building is different from the owner of the land on which the building stands and the works of improvement required to be executed relate to provision of water-taps, bathing places, construction of drains, open or covered as the case may be, provision of water-borne latrines or removal of rubbish and such works are to be executed outside the buildings, the notice shall be served upon the owner of the land. (2) In addition to serving a notice under sub-section (1) on the other concerned, the prescribed authority may serve a copy of the notice on any other person having an interest in the slum area or part thereof or the building or the land on which the building stands, whether as lessee, mortgagee or otherwise. (3) In determining for the purposes of this Act, whether at a reasonable expense the slum area or part thereof can be improved or the building rendered fit for human habitation, regard shall be had to the estimated cost of the works of improvement of the slum area or part thereof or of the works necessary to render the building fit for human habitation and the estimated value that the slum area or part thereof or the building will have when such works are completed. (i) For the purpose of the enquiry referred to in sub-section (2) of the section 20 of the Act, the said authority shall follow the procedure laid down in the Land Acquisition Manual of the Government of Tamil Nadu, as far as possible and applicable. (i) The period with which an appeal should be made by any person who is aggrieved by the order of determination of compensation by the prescribed authority referred to in section 22 of the Act shall be thirty days from the date of receipt of the said order by that person. If any person refuses or fails to comply with an order made under rule 4, the Executive Engineer or the officer authorized by the Chairman may evict that person from and take possession of the premises and may for that purpose, use such force as may be necessary. The Chairman, the Chief Accounts Officer, the Executive Engineer, or the Estate Officer, as the case may be shall satisfy himself before he signs a cheque that the sum for which such cheque is drawn is required for a purpose of work specifically sanctioned by the Board or any other competent authority where such sanction is necessary under the Act or rules made there under. The Chairman, of the Chief Accounts Officer, the Executive Engineer, or the Estate Officer, as the case may be shall also satisfy himself before signing the cheque that a proper bill has been prepared and passed for payment by the competent authority. The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board may if the Board is of opinion that a service Association recognized or deemed to have been recognized under these rules have failed to comply with any of the condition in rule 4 or rule 5 for good and sufficient reason to be recorded in writing deserves to be de-recognised, withdraw the recognition accorded to such service association provided that the recognition shall not be withdrawn, unless such service association has been given an opportunity of making its representations.