(1) If it appears to the local planning authority that any development has been or is being carried out in contravention of this Act, it may, if it considers it expedient, having regard to the provisions of any operative master plan or local plan or an approved scheme and to any other material considerations, serve upon the owner of the land concerned and upon any other person who, in the opinion of the authority, will be affected thereby an order which—
(a) states the nature of the contravention; and
(b) specifies the action required to be taken by the person or persons specified in the order within such period as may be specified therein:
Provided that, where the owner of the land concerned is specified in the order, the order shall have effect as though it specified any successor in title to the land.
(2) Without derogation from the generality of paragraph (b) of subsection (1), an enforcement order may require—
(a) the submission of an application in accordance with section twenty-seven for a permit;
(b) the restoration of the land concerned to its condition before the development took place or as may be required for securing compliance with the conditions of the permit, as the case may be;
(c) the demolition or alteration of any building;
(d) the discontinuance of any operations on or of any use of the land concerned or of any use of any building thereon;
(e) the carrying out on the land concerned of any building or other operations.
(3) Subject to section thirty-four, an enforcement order shall not become operative until the expiry of such period, being not less than one month from the date the order was served, as may be specified therein:
Provided that if any person on whom the order is served appeals in terms of section thirty-eight against the order, the operation of the order shall be suspended until such time as the appeal is finally determined or is withdrawn or abandoned.
(4) Where an enforcement order has become operative, the local planning authority shall submit to the Registrar of Deeds a copy of the order.
(5) Subject to section thirty-eight, on receipt of an order submitted in terms of subsection (4), the Registrar of Deeds shall endorse the title deed to the property concerned with the particulars of the order.
(6) Where an enforcement order will affect a substantial number of persons in a particular area, the local planning authority may publish it in a newspaper circulating in the area and such publication shall be deemed to constitute service of the enforcement order on the persons concerned in that particular area.