Section 19(1)

19. (1) Where on any representation from the Authority it appears to the State Government that, in order to enable the Authority to execute any work of improvement in relation to any building in a slum area or to re-develop any clearance area it is necessary that land within, adjoining or surrounded by any such area should be acquired, the State Government may acquire the land by publishing in the Official Gazette a notice to the effect that the State Government has decided to acquire the land in pursuance of this Section: