Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2012

No. S 591

Building Control Act

(CHAPTER 29)

Building Control
(Amendment)
Regulations 2012

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 49 of the Building Control Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2012.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Building Control Regulations 2003 (G.N. No. S 666/2003) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words “underground building works” wherever they appear in the definition of “geotechnical report” and substituting in each case the words “geotechnical building works”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 2A

3. Regulation 2A of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Geotechnical building works

2A. For the purposes of paragraph (d) in the definition of “geotechnical building works” in the Act, all types of foundation works for buildings of 30 or more storeys are prescribed as geotechnical building works.”.

Amendment of regulation 4

4. Regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “underground building works” in sub-paragraph (a)(v) and substituting the words “geotechnical building works”.

Amendment of regulation 10A

5. Regulation 10A of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “underground building works” wherever they appear in paragraphs (1), (2) and (6)(a) and substituting in each case the words “geotechnical building works”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1), the following sub-paragraph:

“(ba)

plans for constructing or stabilising any slope;”;

(c)

by deleting the words “The excavation and earth retaining system plans for any excavation or any building works for constructing, altering or repairing any earth retaining structure (including slope) in or for a caisson, cofferdam, trench, ditch, shaft or well for supporting earth which has a depth of more than 6 metres” in paragraph (4) and substituting the words “The plans of any excavation and earth retaining structures, or plans for constructing or stabilising any slope, in relation to any geotechnical building works”; and

(d)

by deleting the words “underground building works” in the regulation heading and substituting the words “geotechnical building works”.

Amendment of regulation 24A

6. Regulation 24A of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “underground building works” in paragraphs (1) and (2) and substituting in each case the words “geotechnical building works”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “underground building works” in the regulation heading and substituting the words “geotechnical building works”.

Amendment of Eighth Schedule

7. The Eighth Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “UNDERGROUND BUILDING WORKS” in the heading to Part I and substituting the words “GEOTECHNICAL BUILDING WORKS”;
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the words “a depth,” in paragraph 2 of Part I, the words “or height”;
(c)	by inserting, immediately after the words “6 metres,” in paragraph 2 of Part I, the words “or of any earthworks or other building works for constructing or stabilising a slope with a height of more than 6 metres,”.
(d)	by deleting the words “UNDERGROUND BUILDING WORKS” in the heading to Part II and substituting the words “GEOTECHNICAL BUILDING WORKS”; and
(e)	by inserting, immediately after the words “6 metres,” in paragraph 2 of Part II, the words “or of any earthworks or other building works for constructing or stabilising a slope with a height of more than 6 metres,”.

[G.N. Nos. S 598/2004; S 549/2005; S 478/2007; S 495/2007; S 54/2008; S 250/2008; S 643/2008; S 4/2011]

Made this 29th day of November 2012.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND-202/01-007 V16; AG/LLRD/SL/29/2011/6 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 52 of the Building Control Act).

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