Application for licence

(1) Any owner, who intends to use any building (not being an existing public building) as a public building, shall make an application in writing to the competent authority for a licence therefor. (2) Any owner, who intends to continue to use an existing public building as a public building, shall before the date of the expiry of a period of six months from the date of the commencement of this Act, make an application in writing to the competent authority for a licence therefor. (3) Every application under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be in the prescribed form and shall contain 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 description of the building or the existing public building, as the case may be; (iii) the purpose for which the building or the existing public building, as the case may be, is proposed to be used or is being used; and (iv) such other particulars as may be prescribed. (4) An application under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) may be accompanied by a certificate of structural soundness in the prescribed form obtained from an engineer.