Section 28, An Act to amend the Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960

(1) If the owner, after notice has been given as providedin section 27, does not begin to take down, repair, rebuild or secure the building referred to in the notice within the space of seven days or such shorter period as may be specified in the notice and complete the taking down, repairing or securing as speedily as the circumstances will allow, or if no owner can be around the Director of Public Works may make complaint thereof before a Magistrate, who upon being satisfied of the failure of the owner to comply with the requirements of the notice (whether it has been served upon him or not) shall make an order directing the owner to take down, repair, rebuild or secure, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, within such time as may be fixed by the Magistrate, the building or such part thereof as appears to the Director of Public Works to be in a ruinous state or likely to cause danger to any person; and in case the same be not taken down, repaired, rebuilt or secured within the time so limited, or if no owner can be found; on whom to serve the order, the Director of Public Works shall, with all convenient speed, cause the building or so much thereof as appears to him to be likely to cause danger to any person, to be taken down, repaired, rebuilt or secured in such manner as he deems necessary; and all the expenses incurred by the Director of Public Works in connection with the putting up of any fence and the doing of any other thing which he is authorized to do by section 27, and of taking down, repairing, rebuilding or securing the building shall be paid by the owner of the (2) The Director of Public Works shall be under no liability to any person in consequence of anything done or omitted to be done by him in accordance with the provisions of this section