Projection over streets may be permitted in certain cases

1. (1) The Commissioner

may give a written permission on such terms and on payment of such fee as he in each case thinks fit, to the owner or occupier of the building or any street-

( a) to erect an arcade, over such street or any portion thereof; or

1. (b) to put up a verandah, balcony, arch connecting passage, sunshade, weather

· frame, canopy, awning or other such structure or thing projecting from any storey

over or across any street or portion thereof : Provided that no permission shall be given by the Commissioner for the erection of an arcade in any public street in which construction of an arcade has not been generally sanctioned by the Corporation.

1. (2) The Commissioner may at time by notice require the owner or occupier of any building

to remove a verandah, balcony, sunshade, weather frame or the like put up in

accordance with the provisions of this Act and such owner or occupier shall be bound to take action accordingly but shall be entitled to compensation for the loss caused to him by such removal and the cost incurred thereon.