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not take effect on your building?
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I think experience shews that a new law is necessary,
and that all buildings should come under that new law. Before 1904, experience shewed that all those plague measures were necessary, and I quite believe that the Government is quite right in enforcing the law on
properties which existed before that date.
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Then you hold a certificats, under our existing Ordinance, for a house, and it is built in accordance with that. Dont you think it is understood on that
certificate "and if so maintained". What I would say is this; a concrete floor is laid, and it is in perfect order today, and in six months time, by being used and otherwise, that floor was become defæ tive. Do you
think the Sanitary Board should have no power to call
upon you to make good those defects ?
Yes, I do. I think the Inspector should have the power to say whether the, floor is properly made.
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But supposing your tenants have broken it?
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I would not go so far as to give a certificate, even
then,
say the certificate is for twelve months, and
at the end of six months, the floor is broken.
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No, it is acertificate that it is built in accordance
with the existing laY.
No, I mean a certificate that this house is examined and it is the Inspector's opinion that it is in suitable order for twelve months or six months, or
whatever it may be.
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But the law says that the floors must be impervious, and it lays down a certain class of floor which is impervious. If your tenant maltreats your property to such an extent that the floor is no longer impervious,
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