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Then why, when they were sent to you for all other 16918

matters, didnt you approve or disapprove, but send them

to the drainage surveyor, for him to approve of the

drainage before you did. Arent they separate certificates

and separate permits ?

And arent there a separate set of plans sent in 16919

A.

They are separate, yes.

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Yes, there should be.

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Then dont you think that would have been quite in order

if you had found those plans so far as referred to the

Building Authority, complied with the Ordinance ? Cant

you issue a permit although there was no drains show

theroon

In several cases, questions have arisen about what the

approval of the Building Authority involves, and I have

been advised with reference to these matters that if

the Building Authority approved the pian, then it was

perfectly justifiable on the part of the people who hai

submitted it, to conclude that everything on the plan

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was approved.

Have you taken legal opinion on that from the law

officers of the Crown ?

A.

Not with regard to this particular cas?,

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But on the general principle ?

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The point has arisen, yes.

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Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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Then Mr Chatham, why is it necessary to grant two

certificates before a house can be occupied, - one by

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the Building Authority, and one by the Sanitary Board ?

If you have been so advised that the owner, I gather

from you,

having sent in these plans, and having

built according to these plans, so objection could he

takan, and if he compied, he could occupy the hous

if it were built in accordance. That is what I gather.

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