Section 337:
When building or work may be proceeded with.
(1) Where within a period of sixty days, or
in cases falling under clause (b) of section 331 within a period of thirty days, after the receipts of any
notice under section 333 or section 334 or of the further information, if any, required under section 335
the Commissioner does not refuse to sanction the building or work or upon refusal, does not communicate
the refusal to the person who has given the notice, the Commissioner shall be deemed to have accorded
sanction to the building or work and the person by whom the notice has been given shall be free to
commence and proceed with the building or work in accordance with his intention as expressed in the
notice and the documents and plans accompanying the same:
Provided that if it appears to the Commissioner that the site of the proposed building or work is likely
to be affected by any scheme of acquisition of land for any public purpose or by any proposed regular line
of a public street or extension, improvement, widening or alteration of any street, the Commissioner may
withhold sanction of the building or work for such period not exceeding three months as he deems fit and
the period of sixty days or as the case may be, the period of thirty days specified in this sub-section shall
be deemed to commence from the date of the expiry of the period for which the sanction has been
withheld.
(2) Where a building or work is sanctioned or is deemed to have been sanctioned by the
Commissioner under sub-section (1), the person who has given the notice shall be bound to erect the
building or execute the work in accordance with such sanction but not so as to contravene any of the
provisions of this Act or any other law or of any bye-law made thereunder.
(3) If the person or anyone lawfully claiming under him does not commence the erection of the
building or the execution of the work within one year of the date on which the building or work is
sanctioned or is deemed to have been sanctioned, he shall have to give notice under section 333 or, as the
case may, be under section 334 for fresh sanction of the building or the work and the provisions of this
section shall apply in relation to such notice as they apply in relation to the original notice.
(4) Before commencing the erection of a building or execution of a work within the period specified
in sub-section (3), the person concerned shall give notice to the Commissioner of the proposed date of the
commencement of the erection of the building or the execution of the work:
Provided that if the commencement does not take place within seven days of the date so notified, the
notice shall be deemed not to have been given and a fresh notice shall be necessary in this behalf.