Section 299. Power to require removal of any structure or flexure erected or set up before the appointed day

(1) The 1Municipal Commissioner may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of any premises contiguous to, or in front of, or in connexion with which any wall, fence, rail, post, step, booth or other structure or fixture which it would be unlawful to erect or set up under this Act, has been erected or set up before the appointed day, to remove the said wall, fence, rail, post, step, stall or other structure or thing.\br@s (2) If the owner or occupier of the premises proves that any such projection, encroachment or obstruction has existed for a period sufficient under the law of limitation to give him a prescriptive title (or where such period is less than thirty years, a period of thirty years,) or that it was erected with the consent of any 1Corporation authority duly empowered in that behalf, and that the period, if any, for which the consent is valid has not expired, the 1Corporation shall make reasonable compensation to every person who suffers damage by the removal or alteration of the same. \br@s ————————————————————————