Power of Central Authority to make allowances to certain persons displaced

(1) The Central Authority may pay to any person displaced from any dwelling-house or other building in a slum clearance area or a redevelopment area, as the case may be, which has been acquired under this Part as being unfit for human habitation and not capable at reasonable expense of being rendered so fit, such reasonable allowance as it thinks fit towards his expense in removing, and it may also pay to any person carrying on any trade or business in any such dwelling- house or other building, such reasonable allowance as it thinks fit towards the loss which, in its opinion, he will sustain by reason of the disturbance of his trade or business consequent on his having to quit the house or building and, in estimating that loss, it shall have regard to the period for which the premises occupied by him might reasonably have been expected to be available for the purpose of his trade or business and the availability of other premises suitable for that (2) The Central Authority may also, in cases of special hardship, pay to the owner of any premises acquired for the purposes of this Part such sum as it considers fair and reasonable in the circumstances. (3) The powers of the Central Authority conferred by this section shall be exercised with the approval of the Minister.