Chairman, Local Board, Kurunegala V. Meera Saibo

Present: Dalton J.

CHAIRMAN, LOCAL BOARD, KURUNEGALA, v. MEERA SAIBO.

333-P. C. Kurunegala, 24,598.

    Housing of People and Improvement of Towns Ordinance-Application ' to deviate from building-Resolution to define new street lines- Grounds of refusal-Mandatory order to demolish building- Ordinance No. 19 of 1915, s. 18, sub-sections (1) and (4).

An application to deviate from the plan of a building, which had been previously approved and which did not contravene the provisions of section 18 (1) of the Ordinance as to street limits, cannot be refused on the ground that the local authority had resolved to define new street lines subsequent to the application.

No mandatory order for the demolition of a building should issue where the building does not contravene some provision of the law, or even where by some alteration it could be brought into accordance with the law.

THE accused was charged under section 13 (1) (6) of the Housing of the People and Improvement of Towns Ordinance, No. 19 of 1915, with deviating from an approved plan in the construction of a building, and convicted on March 7, 1925. Followi

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