Inspection of premises,
Emergency clowre of premises.
Power to take custody of and dispose of property.
(3) Any trespasser ordered to leave an estate who does not. within a reasonable time, obey such order may be evicted from the estate by an authorized officer who may use such force as may be reasonably necessary to evict such trespasser and, for that purpose, may request the assistance of a police officer or any other authorized officer.
22. Notwithstanding the terms of any lease, an authorized officer may at any time in pursuance of his duties enter and inspect any building or part thereof in an estate.
23. (1) If, in the opinion of the Authority, any building or part thereof in an estate is or is likely to become dangerous by reason of fire, wind, rain or any other cause, the Authority may by order declare the building to be dangerous.
(2) On the making of an order under subsection (1) every lease of the building or part thereof shall terminate forthwith.
(3) Where an order has been made under subsection (1)— (a) every person in the building or part thereof shall quit forthwith the same when required to do so by an authorized officer; and
(b) any authorized officer may evict any person who fails to quit forthwith the building or part thereof when required to do so by an authorized officer.
(4) In the exercise of his powers under subsection (3) an authorized officer, with such assistance from police officers as he considers necessary, may use such force as is reasonably necessary to evict any person who fails to quit the building or part thereof when required to do so by an authorized officer.
24. (1) The Authority may take possession of any prop- erty-
(2) found on any land in an estate which has been the subject of a lease, after the tenant has left the land following the termination of his lease:
(8) which appears to an authorized officer to have been abandoned in any part of an estate not the subject of a lease;
(c) which has been placed in or on or affixed to any land in an estate which is the subject of a lease, in contraven- tion of any condition in the lease; or
(d) which causes an obstruction or nuisance on or in any
part of an estate not the subject of a lease.
(2) The Authority shall post, on or near the premises or place where the property is or was situate, a notice setting out details of any property of which it has taken possession under subsection (1) and shall, in such notice, call upon any claimant to submit bis claim to the property-
(a) in the case of property referred to in subsection (1)(a), within such time as is specified in the notice being not Jess than seven days after the day on which the notice was posted; and
(b) in the case of property referred to in subsection (1)(B), (c) or (d), within two days after the day on which the notice was posted.
(3) The Authority may refuse to return any property of which it has taken possession under subsection (I) unless satisfied that the claimant is the owner of the property.
(4) The Authority may recover from a claimant to whom any property, of which the Authority has taken possession under subsection (1), is returned any expenses incurred by it in the removal and storage of such property.
(5) Any property of which the Authority has taken posses- sion under subsection (1), which is not claimed within the time referred to in subsection (2) or which the Authority refuses to return under subsection (3) to any person, shall become the prop- erty of the Authority free from the rights of any person and may be disposed of by the Authority by sale or otherwise.
(6) If, within six months after the day on which the notice was posted under subsection (2), any person satisfies the Authority that, at the time any property sold pursuant to subsection (5) became the property of the Authority by virtue of that subsection, he was the owner of such property, the Authority shall pay to such person the balance of the proceeds of sale after deducting any expenses incurred by the Authority in the removal, storage and sale of the property.
25. (1) The Authority and any authorized officer may, for the purposes of this Ordinance, serve on the occupier of any land, whether or not in an estate, a requisition in the specified form requiring him to furnish to the Authority or the authorized officer, within the time stated in the form, the particulars specified in the requisition.
(2) The Authority and an authorized officer may, for the purposes of this Ordinance, give notice in writing to the occupier of any land, whether or not in an estate, requiring him to attend
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