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OBSTRUCTIVE BUILDING.
The Medical Officer of Health may represent that any building
which conduces to make another building or buildings unfit for
human habitation should be pulled down; the Board shall
thereupon cause a report to be made to them of the circumstances,
and after considering the same may order copies thereof to
be given to the owner who may appeal in the manner provided
by the Act. If the appeal be not successful or be abandoned, the
Board may purchase the land and pull down the building. All
questions as to the value of the land are to be decided by an
arbitrator.
SCHEME FOR RE-CONSTRUCTION.
Where a house has been pulled down, or where it appears to
the Board that the closeness, narrowness and bad arrangement
or condition of any of the buildings is prejudicial to the health
of the inhabitants, and that the demolition or re-construction
thereof is necessary, and that the site is too small to be dealt with
as an unhealthy area under Part 1, the Board shall pass a
resolution to that effect, and direct a scheme to be prepared for the
improvement of the area. Notices have then to be served in
accordance with Part 1, and a petition presented to the Local
Government Board, for an order sanctioning the scheme, which
may be made after a local inquiry. The Board may then
purchase the area comprised in the scheme; but the owners may,
within two months after the publication of the order, petition the
Local Government Board against it. If the petition be not pressed,
the Local Government Board shall confirm the order, which will
then have the same effect as if enacted by Act of Parliament.
SETTLEMENT OF COMPENSATION.
This is to be settled by an Arbitrator, who shall receive evidence
as to the value of the property, and shall take into consideration the
amount necessary to put the house into a good sanitary condition,
and deduct the same from the value of the house. There are
numerous provisions regarding these sections which need not now
be dealt upon.