Section 49

Where the Director‑General is of the opinion that any building or part of the building or anything attached to a building used or occupied as a dwelling house is unfit for human habitation and cannot be rendered fit therefor without the removal, alteration or demolition in whole or in part of any partition, compartment, loft, gallery, pent roof, outhouse or other structure or erection or without the execution of any alterations or structural operations that he or she may specify, the Director‑General may, by written notice, require the owner thereof to carry into effect all or any of the following:

The notice must give at least 24 hours in advance for the commencement of the operation enjoined and must specify the period within which the operation must be completed.

A person must not, without the express written permission of the Director‑General, replace any partition, erection or obstruction removed under subsection (1) and the Director‑General or any authorised officer may enter upon such premises and remove the partition, erection or obstruction.

The Director‑General may also, by notice to be posted in a conspicuous position upon the building, require the owner or occupier (as the case may be) to cease to inhabit the building and to remove all goods, furniture and effects from the building within 48 hours from the posting of the notice.

The owner and every occupying tenant must thereupon comply with the requirements of the notice.

At the expiry of 48 hours from the posting of the notice mentioned in subsection (4), the Director‑General or any authorised officer may remove all goods, furniture and effects from the building.