Approval or rejection of plans

(1) Where plans of any proposed work are, in accordance with building regulations, deposited with the Director or Technical Manager, in the case of a Building Unit, the Director shall approve the plans, unlessplans. (a) they are defective; (b) they contravene any provision of the building regulations; or (c) they contravene the provisions of any zoning by-laws, or they do not comply with the provisions of this Part or any other applicable law, in which case, he shall refer those plans to the Authority or Building Unit, as the case may be, together with his advice thereon. (2) On receipt of any plans on a referral by the Director or Technical Manager, in the case of a Building Unit under sub- section (1), the Authority or Building Unit, as the case may be, may reject those plans, or pass them subject to either or both of the conditions set out in sub-section (3). (3) The conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) are– (a) that such modifications as the Authority or Building Unit, as the case may be, may specify shall be made in the deposited plans; or (b) that such further plans as they may specify shall be deposited, in order to bring the plans into conformity with the building (4) A person by whom or on whose behalf, plans have been deposited shall within thirty days in the case of plans deposited with the Authority or fourteen days in the case of plans deposited with the Building Unit, be notified in writing by the Director in the case of plans submitted to the Authority, or by the Building Unit in the case of plans submitted to the Building Unit, whether those plans have been approved or rejected. (5) A notice of rejection of plans shall state the defects on account of which, or the building regulation or section of this Act for non-conformity with which, or under the authority of which, the plans have been rejected. (6) A notice that plans have been passed shall23 (a) if the plans have been passed by the Authority in exercise of any power to relax or dispense with any requirement of the building regulations, or this Part, state the requirements of the building regulations or this Part relaxed or dispensed with; (b) state that the approval does not constitute an approval to commence development or construction. (6A) In subsection (6)(b), the expression “development” means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change in the use of building, or land or the segregation, division, or subdivision of any building or land whether or not any building, engineering or other operations have been carried out or are intended to be carried out for the formation of any lots. (7) Where the Authority, the Director or a Building Unit determines that any plan, application or other document submitted by an applicant pursuant to this Act is defective or contravenes this Act, any regulations made, or any other applicable law, the applicant may make an application to a tribunal to be appointed by the Minister for that purpose, and the tribunal shall make such orders and issue such directions as to it may seem just in all the circumstances of each case. (7A) The tribunal appointed under sub-section (1), shall consist of four members of whom two members shall be from the Association of Professional Engineers and the other two members from the Association of Professional Architects. (7B) The members of the tribunal shall elect from their number a chairperson of the tribunal and the tribunal shall regulate its own procedure. 24 (7C) The decision of the tribunal shall not be the subject of any appeal.