Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Any owner, who intends to use any building (nor jjiwncc. being an existing public building) as a public building, shall make an application in writing to *the xm'rnpetent authority for a licence therefor. (2) Any owner., who intends to continue to use an existing public bltilding as a public building, sfiall before the 'date of the expiry of a period of six months fro'&' the date + of the, communeement of this Act, make an. appli- cati-on in writing to the competent .authority fcr 'a licence therefor. . . . .. (3) Every application under sub-section (1) 6r sub- . section (2) shall be in the prescribed form and s5aU .con- tain < the following particulars, namely. :-- , . . .' ' (i) the name and address of the owner of the building or the existing public building, as the case may 'be ; + . (ii) the situation and descripiion of the building or the c xisting public building, as the case may be; . . . , f ' " ,.. (iii) the purpose for which the-building or the exist- ,ing public built ling, as the case may be, is proposed ,to'. used or is being, used ; and s p a . (iv) such other particular s may be presc~bed,* . . . * * i (4j An ipI;lidation under sub-section ' (1) or' . ikb. .section (2) may be accompanied by a certificate of structural lrounde~~ in the prescribed form obtained from an engineer. . Public Buildt.?g,~ (Licensi~t~g) ty may obtaill the as the Government may specify the structural soundness of the ng access to such building. f the certificate of structural sound- lication under sub-section (1) or , or on the basis of the opinion rer under sub-section (1) of section inspecticn made under sub-section section 5, if the competent authority is satirfied- by written order, grant the licence and if the corn- authority is not so satisfied, it shall, by written 'refuse to grant the licence. =tion under sub-section (I) of section 4. C ', 4 1 '7, Xi~spect ion. When competent authority to grant licence. I [I965 : T.N. Act 13 (b) In the case of an existing public building, the , competent authority shall.pass the order under sub-section (1) and shall communicate in the manner presciilied ' ' such order to the applicant within 'a period of sik nionths ' . from the date of the receipt of the application + ~ n b i . + sub-section (2) of section 4. 3 . I . I < .' 1 ' I * ' (3) The licewe shall be in the prescribed form, 'shall be subject to such conditions as may be specified therein and shall also specify the building or the existing public building, as the case may be, the purpose for which . p it is to be used and the number of persons which- the . building or the existing public building !:an accommodate without danger to their safety. (4) A 1iaen:c gra:~ted undcr sub-section (1) shall be valid for u period of three vears or for such shorter period as the comp~tc11: authority may specify iu the licence and the period afore said shall commence- (i) in casc the licence relates to a building, not being a n existing public building, on the date of the corn- muaication ot'the order granting the licerlcc, and, (ii) in c:.ue the licencc relates to an existing public building, on the date of the expiry of a period of one year froill the dato or the commencement of this Act. (5) Where the competent authority refuses to grant a licence under sub-section (I), it shall give reasons for such rafusal. Licence