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Reference to municipality if Executive Officer delays grant or refusal of approval of permission :– (1) If within the period prescribed by Section 267, the Executive Officer has neither given nor refused his approval of a building-site or his permission to execute any work, as the caes may be, the municipality shall be bound, on the written request of the applicant, to determine by written order whether such approval or permission should be given or not. (2) If the municipality does not, within one month from the receipt of such written request, deliver to the applicant an order either granting or refusing such approval or permission shall be deemed to have been given; and the applicant may proceed to execute the work, but not so as to contravene any of the provisions of this Act or any rules or bye-laws made under this Act.