(2)Subject to any rules made by the State Government in this behalf, the Board of Councilors may, in its discretion. give to the owners or occupiers of buildings abutting on public streets written permission to erect or re-erect platform, verandah, balcony, sun-shade or weather-frame projecting on a public street or drain on such conditions as it may think fit and on payment of such fees or rent as it may, from time to time, fix.