Council for the Rural Municipality of Hanover is considering giving a break to municipal and charitable religious institutions.

(Hanover Reeve Stan Toews)Reeve Stan Toews says the way it works right now when a religious institution requires a building permit, it pays the fee and then in most cases will be refunded at the end of the project.

Toews says council has given first reading to a bylaw that would see the building permit fee waived entirely. Religious institutions are those registered as a religious charity with the Canada Revenue Agency.

He says this change would mean they would not have to shell out money for a permit, and this would also be easier on Hanover's bookkeeping.

According to Toews, the municipality might have three or four of these cases one year but then go three or four years without one.