Grounds on which approval of site for, or permission to

construct building, may be refused.- (1) The only grounds on which approval of a site for the construction or re-construction of a building or permission to construct or re-construct a building may be refused, are the following, namely:-

1. (a) that the work or the use of the site for the work or any of the particulars comprised in the site plan, ground-plan, elevations, sections, or

specification would contravene some specified provisions of any law or some specified order, rule, declaration or bye-law made under any law;

1. (b) that the application for such permission does not contain the particulars or is not prepared in the manner required under rules or bye-laws;
2. (c) that any of the documents referred to in section 299 have not been signed as required under rules or bye-laws;
3. (d) that any information or documents required by the Commissioner under the rules or bye-laws has or have not been duly furnished;
4. (e) that streets or roads have not been made as required by section 280;
5. (f) that the proposed building would be an encroachment upon Government or corporation land;
6. (g) that the site of such building does not abut on a street or a

projected street and there is no access to such building from any such street by a passage or pathway appertaining to such site and not less than five meters wide at any part.

1. (2) Whenever the Commissioner or the standing committee refuses to approve a site for a building or to grant permission to construct or re- construct a building the reasons for such refusal shall be specifically stated in the order.