Basis for assessing compensation-general and special provisions

(1) Whenever proceedings are taken under the Land Acquisition Act that Act shall, subject to the special provisions contained in subsection (2) of this section, apply in assessing (2) In assessing the amount of compensation payable to the owners of land and buildings acquired by the Central Authority under the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Act, Cap. 184, regard shall be had to the following provisions; namely (a) in the case of land with buildings thereon which are unfit for human habitation or are dangerous or injurious or likely to be injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area, the compensation payable shall be the value of the site as a cleared site without regard to any buildings existing thereon; (b) in the case of land with buildings thereon in respect of which sanitary defects exist but which are not otherwise unfit for human habitation or dangerous or injurious or likely to be injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area, the compensation payable shall be the site value as mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection, together with the value of the buildings assessed in accordance with the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Act, Cap. 184 after deducting such amount as would be required to abate the sanitary defects; (c) in the case of any other land and building, the compensation payable shall be assessed in accordance with the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Act, Cap. 184: 36 Provided that in the case of any dwelling house or other building which is regarded as dangerous or injurious or likely to be injurious to health under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection only on the ground that by reason of its bad arrangements in relation to other buildings or the narrowness or the bad arrangements of the roads, the compensation payable shall be as in paragraph (c) of the subsection, unless it is a building constructed or adapted as, or for the purposes of, a dwelling-house or partly for those purposes and partly for other purposes and part thereof, not being a part used for other purposes, is by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit for human habitation. (3) In determining for the purposes of this Part whether a house is fit for human habitation, regard shall be had to the extent, if any, to which by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects the house falls short of the provisions of any by-laws in operation in the district in which the house is situate. (4) The owner of any building which is regarded as unfit for human habitation shall be entitled, on making a request in writing, to be furnished by the Central Authority with a statement in writing of its reasons for deciding that the building is so unfit. respect of well- maintained