Fire Safety (Building Fire Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Mar 2000

No. S 181

Fire Safety Act

(Chapter 109A)

Fire Safety (Building Fire Safety)
(Amendment) Regulations 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 61(1) of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Safety (Building Fire Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2000.

Deletion and substitution of regulations 10 and 11

2. Regulations 10 and 11 of the Fire Safety (Building Fire Safety) Regulations (Rg 1) are deleted and the following regulations substituted therefor:

“Approval, disapproval and rejection of plans

10.—(1) Where the Commissioner approves any plans of fire safety works under section 23(2)(a) of the Act, he shall in writing notify the applicant and the qualified person who prepared the plans of his approval and of any terms and conditions on which such approval has been granted.

(2) Where any plans of fire safety works are —

(a)	disapproved under section 23(2)(aa) of the Act;
(b)	rejected under section 23(3) of the Act; or
(c)	approved under section 23(4) of the Act,

the Commissioner shall in writing notify the applicant and the qualified person who prepared those plans.

Return of plans

11.—(1) Where any plans of fire safety works have been approved or disapproved, the Commissioner may retain one set and return the remaining sets of the plans to the applicant.

(2) Where any plans of fire safety works are rejected under section 23(3) of the Act or where they are withdrawn by the applicant before or after the approval, the Commissioner may return the plans to the applicant.

(3) Where any plans of fire safety works are to be returned pursuant to this regulation, the Commissioner shall in writing notify the applicant to collect the plans within 14 days from the date of the notification from such place as the Commissioner may specify.

(4) Where any plans of fire safety works to be returned by the Commissioner are not collected within the period referred to in paragraph (3), the Commissioner may dispose of the plans in any manner as he thinks fit.”.

Amendment of regulation 30

3. Regulation 30 of the Fire Safety (Building Fire Safety) Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “The” in the 1st line of paragraph (1) and substituting the words “Subject to paragraph (1A), the”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1), the following paragraph:

“(1A) Where the Commissioner has under section 23(2)(aa) of the Act disapproved any plan referred to in paragraph (1), the person who submitted such plan may revise and resubmit the plan for approval upon payment of the following fees:

(a)

in the case of a revised plan which —

(i)	contains the same location plan, site plan and gross area as the disapproved plan;
(ii)	is a first revision of the disapproved plan;
(iii)	has been revised only in respect of fire safety measures in order to comply with the provisions of the Act, these Regulations and the Fire Code adopted under section 55 of the Act and does not include any other changes; and
(iv)	has been submitted within 90 days of the date of the notification of disapproval or such further period as the Commissioner may allow,

25% of the fee specified in paragraph (1); and

(b)

in any other case, the fee specified in paragraph (1).”.

[G.N. Nos. S 128/96; S 254/97; S 434/97; S 361/98; S 341/99].

Made this 27th day of March 2000.

PETER CHAN JER HING

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/030 V22; AG/LEG/SL/109A/96/1 Vol. 2]

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