Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
When building or work may be proceeded with. - (1) Where within a pe- riod of sixty days, or in cases falling under clause (b) of section 257 within a period of thirty days, after the receipt of any notice under section 259 or section 260 or of the further information, if any, required under section 261, the Commis- sioner does not refuse to sanction the building or work or upon refusal does not communicate the refusal to the person who has given the notice, the Commis- sioner shall be deemed to have accorded sanction to the building or work and the person by whom the notice has been given shall be free to commence and proceed with the building or work in accordance with his intention as expressed in the no- tice and the documents and plans accompanying the same : Provided that if it appears to the Commissioner that the site of the proposed building or work is likely to be affected by any scheme of acquisition of land for any public purpose or by any proposed regular line of a public street of extension, improvement, widening or alteration of any street, the Commissioner may without sanction of the building or work for such pe- riod not exceeding three months as he deems fit and the period of sixty days or, as the case may be, the period of thirty days specified in this sub- section shall be deemed to commence from the date of the expiry of the pe- riod for which the sanction has been withheld. (2) Where a building or work is sanctioned or is deemed to have been sanctioned by the Commissioner under sub-section (1), the person who has given the notice shall be bound to erect the building or execute the work in accordance with such sanction but not so as to contravene any of the provisions of this Act or any other law or of any bye-law made thereunder. (3) If the person or any one lawfully claiming under him does not commence the erection of the building or the execution of the work within one year of the date on which the building or work is sanctioned or is deemed to have been sancioned, he shall have to give notice under section 259 or, as the case may be, under section 260 for fresh sanction of the building or the work and the provisions of the section shall apply in relation to such notice as they apply in relation to the original notice. (4) Before commencing the erection of a building or execution of a work within the period specified in sub-section (3), the person concerned shall give notice to the Commissioner of the proposed date of the commencement of the erection of the building or the execution of the work : Provided that if the commencement does not take place within seven days of the date so notified, the notice shall be deemed not to have been given and a fresh notice shall be necessary in this behalf. Section 264