Development Planning Act (Cap. 552), article 99

99. (1) If it appears to the Executive Council that the amenity of any area is injured by the appearance or structural conditio n of any building or any land, being a garden, vacant site or other open land, or by the appearance of a site upon which development or construction or any other works are taking or have taken place, the Executive Council may serve an enforcement notice on the owner of the land or on the occupier of the land or on the person responsible for the acts mentioned in the notice or any combination thereof, as the Executive Council deems most expedient, requiri ng such steps to be taken for abating the injury as may be specifi ed in the notice. The provisions of article 97(3) shall also apply to any notice under this article. (2) The Minister may, in consultation with the Executive Council, by regulations under this article provide that propert y which is in a state of disrepair and, or constitutes a danger, shall be demolished by its owner or by the Authority, at the owner’s expense, in accordance with the provisions of article 100. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such regulations may prescribe: (a) the manner through which the state of the property is certified as constituting a danger, (b) the methodology and procedures to be used by the Authority in any action it may take as aforesaid. (3) A notice under this article shall also be referred to as an "enforcement notice" and unless the context otherwise requires and subject to such modifications and adaptations as may be necessa ry to give full effect to the provisions of those articles, wherev er the expression appears in this Act, it shall include a notice given under this article. Such notices may also be issued for any developme nt carried out before 1967. Supplementary provisions as to enforcement and proceedings for debts due to the Authority.