172. Registration of Sites.—Any business site may be registered with the Warden for ten days whilst the holder is engaged in preparing for the occupancy thereof, and such registration shall operate as a protection within the meaning of these regulations; and such registration may be renewed by the Warden for an additional period not exceeding ten days at one time, and such registration or renewal shall be indorsed on the certificate of registration of such business site, and recorded in the Registration Book.

173. Information to the Public.—When any business site has been registered the holder thereof shall post and maintain thereon a board not less than 9in. square, with the word “Registered,” the name of the holder, and the date and number of registration certificate legibly painted or written thereon.

174. Setting apart Land for Business Purposes.—The Warden may, wherever it shall be necessary for the public convenience, set apart land to be occupied for business purposes, and direct a surveyor to divide such land by streets and roadways, and to lay it off into sections in the most convenient manner, and such sections may be of less area and frontage than hereinafter provided. If after such survey as aforesaid it shall be found that any holder of a business license has a substantial building or place of business upon any section so laid off he shall be entitled to occupy such section, or, if the building is upon a street, to occupy the section nearest to the building: Provided that the nearest section be not in the legal occupation of some other person previous to the survey of the street.

175. Occupation to be subject to Survey.—Any business site that may be taken up or marked out previously to survey shall be held merely on sufferance subject to survey, and the whole or any portion of any such site may be taken for streets or public reserves if required for the public convenience: Provided that such survey shall not affect the right of any holder of a business site to so much of a surveyed section as lies within the limits of his original area.

176. Public Notification by Warden.—Whenever the Warden shall have set apart any land for business purposes, and the same shall have been surveyed as aforesaid, he shall fix a time when such land shall be open for occupation by holders of business licenses for business purposes, and shall publish in such manner as he may deem suitable or convenient a notice of the time when applications will be received.

177. Application for Surveyed Sections.—Every person intending to take up as a business site any section of land set apart and surveyed for business purposes shall make application in writing at the Warden’s office, stating the number and description of such section, in accordance with the form set forth in Schedule 32., quoting the

number and date of his business license; and every application shall be registered in a book set apart for that purpose, showing the date and hour upon which such application was received; and a time and place shall be fixed for the hearing, and the right to occupy such sections shall be granted according to priority of application, and a certificate of registration of any such grant shall be issued. In the event of two or more applications for any one section being lodged at the same time the right of occupation shall be decided by lot in the presence of the Warden.

178. Space between Buildings.—An open space of not less than 6ft. shall at all times be left between buildings hereafter erected for business purposes by holders of business licenses; and the owner of a single business site shall only be entitled to build upon so much as shall leave 6ft. of the frontage line unoccupied; that is to say, 3ft. on each side of the building wherever the business section has a surveyed section on each side of it.

179. Absence from Business Site.—Any person in lawful possession of a business site, who may have erected thereon a substantial dwelling or place of business, may absent himself from such area for any space of time not exceeding nine months, provided that he lodge at the Warden’s office an application for registration in the Form 33 in the schedule hereto, and at the same time deposit the business license under which he holds such site, and thereupon a certificate of registration shall be issued to him, and the said business site shall be protected within the meaning of these regulations for the period specified in such certificate: Provided that such protection shall not remain in force for any longer period than that for which the business license is in operation; and, if at the expiration of the time for which the site has been so registered and protected its owner do not resume possession thereof, the same shall be deemed to be abandoned.

180. Building on Abandoned Sites.—Any person taking possession of a forfeited or abandoned business site on which a building has been erected may, if the building be not removed within seven days of such possession being taken, either remove it at the expense of the owner thereof, or take possession of it and pay to him compensation, and such compensation may be settled by arbitration.

181. Information to the Public.—When any business site has been registered, the holder thereof shall post and maintain thereon a board not less than 9in. square, with the word “Registered,” the name of the holder, and the date, number, and period of such registration legibly painted or written thereon.

182. Withdrawal of Business Sites.—It shall be at all times lawful for the Warden, by public notification, to withdraw such surveyed business