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Rent (Amendment) Act (No. 55 of 1980) - Sect 10

Insertion of new section 18A in the principal enactment

10.The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 18, and shall have effect as section 18a, of the principal enactment:
18A.
(1) The Commissioner of National Housing may-
(a) upon application made in that behalf by the owner of any building used for residential purposes and constructed at least fifty years prior to the date of the application ;
(b) after affording the occupants of such building an opportunity of being heard,
(2) Where the Commissioner of National Housing makes an order under subsection (1) authorizing the owner of a building to demolish such building, the Commissioner shall
(a) specify in such order, the number of residential units that shall be constructed by such owner within such period or periods as may be deter- mined by the Commissioner on the land on which the demolished building stood; and
(b)
(3) An order made under subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been duly commedicated to every occupier of the building in respect of which such order is made, if it is posted by the Commissioner of National Housing on some conspicuous part of such building.
(4) Every occupier of any building in respect of which an order is made under subsection (1) shall vacate such building not later than ninety days after the provisions of subsection (2) (b) (i) or (2) (b) (ii) are complied with.
(5) Where the occupier of any building in respect of which an order is made under subsection (1) fails to comply with the pro visions of subsection (4) the owner of such building may, notwithstanding anything in this Act, apply to the District Court of the district in which such building is situated, praying for the recovery of possession of such building and for the ejectment there- for, of such occupier.
(6) A decision of the Commissioner of National Housing under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) shall not be called in question or examined by the court in any proceedings under this section.
(7) Where the owner of a building fails to construct the number of residential units within suck period or periods as determined by the Commissioner of National Housing under subsection (2), the relevant area of land shall be acquired by the Government under Part VIII of the National Housing Act.".

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