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If within the period referred to in sub-section (1) of section 217 the Mayor-in-Council has neither accorded nor refused to accord sanction to a building plan, nor granted permission td execute a work, such sanction or permission shall be deemed to have been granted, but the same shall not contravene any of the provisions of this Act, or of the building regulations or of any rule or bye-law applying thereto.