26. Refund of deposit when street works have been completed
Feedback & supportWhere a deposit has been made under section 24(5) and street works have been carried out to the satisfaction of the Director-General, the Director-General may, upon an application in the prescribed form, refund to the person who made the deposit the whole or part of the deposit.
street works
“street works” includes work of sewering, levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, kerbing, channelling, draining, lighting, laying of water, gas or electricity services and otherwise the making good a street or part of the street;
The Director-General may retain the deposit or any part of the deposit, if he is of the opinion that —
the street works have not been executed properly;
the building operations, in regard to the erection of any building which has not been commenced or completed, would require further street works to be executed; or
it is required for a period of maintenance, which period shall not exceed 12 months.
In this section and in section 27, “building operations” means such works as are carried out for the erection of any new building, including works which are preparatory to the erection of a new building.[25
building
“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure, support or foundation connected to the foregoing;