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the contractor has not finished within a certain time,
he has to pay a penalty ?
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Yes.
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And if you fail to get these certificates, for no
reason at all practically, and it is kept hack for a
couple of months, this poor contracter has to pay two
months penalty?
A.
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I am sorry to say that that clausa is not -
But he is entitled to pay that penalty ?
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A.
Yes.
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In fact,
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But the contracter pays it on that ocession, and the
next block he puts up for you, he says "My word, because
the Sanitary Board would not give me a certificate in
time, I am going to put on an allowance for that". That
is quite possible.
And the contractor, you dont pay him presumably his 18159
final payment until the place is pasɛed for occupation ?
The clause in our agreement is that the thing is not
completed, until the oertificate is issued.
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And the man is kept out of his money for six weeks say
for no reason at all ?
ne Chairman;-
A.
Yes.
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Reference:-
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borrows?
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Yes. Under the existing conditions, under which the officers of the Board are Civil Servants, they are of
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course liable to reprimand, and be called over the
coals by the Governor for any departure from the
Ordinance. They practically admit to you that the thing
is absurd. You go to a Government Official, and say
"Have I got to wait" and they will say "It is absurd".
and they will say "Thers is the Ordinance, there is ng
help for it".
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