Section 28: Permit for hazardous building
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
28. Permit for hazardous building
(1) No hazardous building shall be built, erected or established in any part
of Mauritius—
(a) except where a permit has been issued by the local authority; and
(b) under such conditions as the local authority may consider appropriate, including the prevention of fire, protection of the environment or public health, public convenience, or for the protection of the health, or for the safety, of any worker employed in
or about such hazardous building.
(2) A local authority may cause a hazardous building to be pulled down or
removed as the local authority may think fit, at the expense of the offender.
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Questions this section answers
- Do I need a special permit to build a hazardous building like a forge or furnace?
- Can the local authority order a hazardous building to be pulled down?