Section 10. Power to declare any slum area to be a clearance area

10. Where the Competent Authority upon information received or otherwise in its possession is satisfied as respects any slum area, or any part thereof, that a majority of the buildings in that area cannot be rendered fit for human habitation or the required works of improvement on the land in that area cannot be effected otherwise than by demolition of the buildings therein, it may, by order notified in the official Gazette, declare the area to be a clearance area.