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Q. -But that is actually a fact, for the moment?
A. Yes.
Q.-Have you any authority over the drainage as Building Authority?
A.-None, except the point of connection.
Q-Then why, when they were sent to you for all other matters, didn't you approve or disapprove, but send them to the drainage surveyor, for him to approve of the drainage before you did. Aren't they separate certificates and separate permits?
A.-They are separate, yes.
Q. And aren't there a separate set of plans sent in ?
A. Yes, there should be.
Q.-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? Can't you issue a permit although there was no drains shewn thereon?
A. In several cases, questions have arisen about what the approval of the Building Authority involves, and I have been advised with reference to those matters that if the Building Authority approved the plan, then it was perfectly justifiable on the part of the people who had submitted it, to conclude that everything on the plan was approved.
The Chairman. Have you taken legal opinion on that from the law officers of the Crown?
A. Not with the regard to this particular case.
Q-But on the general principle?
A.--The point has arisen, yes.
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Mr. Shelton Hooper. Then Mr. Chatham, why is it necessary to grant two certi- ficates before a house can be occupied--one by 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, no objection could be taken. and if he complied, he could occupy the house if it were built in accordance. That is what I gather.
A. Yes.
Q.-Theu, no drains being shewn thereon, dont you know that he could not have done without a certificate from the Savitary Board that the other part had been complied with?
A. Yes.
Q.-Then what is the value of the advice you have got, that the owner might presume
that the house was in order?
A.-That all the work shewn on the plan was in order, yes.
Q.-But you were not advised that the occupant could occupy a house, if he built it in accordance with that, and left out all his drains?
A. As a matter of fact, the point did not arise.
Q.-Clearly it arises.
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