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Provided that, where under regulations the Building Authority calls for further particulars, he shall do so within twenty-one days of the original submission of all the particulars referred to in subsection (2), and the said consent shall, failing such notification, likewise be deemed to have been given upon the expiration of—
 * (i) the same period, or
 * (ii) fourteen days from the receipt by him of such further particulars, whichever is the later.

10. (1) Where—
 * (a) any accident or emergency renders it necessary to shore up, underpin, demolish or otherwise make safe any existing building immediately; and
 * (b) notice in writing in the prescribed form of such work and of the accident or emergency which necessitated the same is given to the Building Authority by the building owner either before such work is authorized by him or within forty-eight hours after it has been commenced whichever is the earlier,

the building owner may commence such work without obtaining the Building Authority’s consent under section 9.

(2) If the Building Authority consider that the emergency no longer exists he may by order in writing served on the building owner require that building works cease until consent under section 9 is obtained.

11. Where building works in respect of which the consent of the Building Authority has been obtained are not commenced within three months thereof, or if commenced are suspended for such a period, such consent shall be deemed to be revoked:

Provided that the Building Authority may in writing renew such consent upon such conditions as in his opinion are made necessary by reason of such delay in commencement or such suspension.

12. (1) No new building shall be occupied in any way, except by not more than two caretakers, until the Building Authority issues a permit in the prescribed form.