Clause 143

Whenever any owner or occupier is required under this Ordinance to erect or remove any building or thing or to perform any other work to which the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to nuisances to be dealt with summarily thereunder do not apply, and such owner or occupier after due notice fails to erect or remove such building or thing or to perform such work within the prescribed time, the authority may make a complaint and the Magistrate’s Court hearing the complaint may make on such owner or occupier a summary order, in this Ordinance referred to as a “mandatory order”, requiring such owner or occupier to execute the required work.

A mandatory order shall require the person to whom it is directed to execute any work which the Court is authorised to require to be executed within a time to be specified in such order and may also require such person to pay to the authority a sum for costs and expenses incurred in obtaining such mandatory order.

Any person to whom the order is addressed who fails to comply with the requirements of a mandatory order shall, unless he satisfies the Court that he has used all due diligence to carry out such order, be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars a day during his default, and the Court may direct the authority to enter the premises and execute the work so required to be executed and the expenses thereby incurred by the authority shall be paid by the person in default and, if such person is the owner, the provisions of section 157 of this Ordinance shall apply to such expenses, and in any other case the provisions of section 154 of this Ordinance shall apply thereto.