2. The Second Schedule to the Building Control Regulations 2003 (G.N. No. S 666/2003) is amended —| (a) | by inserting, immediately after the words “specified building” in the definition of “general building” in paragraph 1(1), the words “, and includes a type 1 building”; | | (b) | by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “storey” in paragraph 1(1) and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:“ “type 1 building” means any agricultural or industrial building, being a building that is constructed or used, or is to be constructed or used, primarily for one or more of the following purposes:| (a) | the growing, cultivation, picking or harvesting of any plant, fungi or algae intended for human or animal consumption or other commercial purposes; | | (b) | the rearing, breeding or processing of any animal or invertebrate intended for human or animal consumption or other commercial purposes; | | (c) | the manufacturing, preparation, preservation, processing, brewing, packing, canning, bottling or storage of any foodstuff or beverage; | | (d) | the carrying out of activities involving agricultural science or agri‑biotechnology in relation to food or food biotechnology; | | (e) | the manufacturing, assembling, altering, repairing, servicing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning, adapting, breaking up or demolishing of any article or part of an article; | | | | Buildings that are constructed or used primarily for any of the following purposes: |
| | | (a) | the assembly, manufacture, repair or servicing of any machinery or plant; |
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| | | (b) | the assembly, repair or servicing of — |
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| | | (i) | any computer hardware, audiovisual equipment, and other communication or electronic equipment, apparatus or parts; |
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| | | (ii) | any office, computing or accounting machinery; or |
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| | | (iii) | any photographic or optical goods; |
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| | | (c) | the assembly, repair, servicing or refilling of any fire extinguishers; |
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| | | (d) | the assembly, repair or servicing of any vehicle; |
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| | | (e) | the assembly, repair, servicing or maintenance of any engine, motor or mechanical pump; |
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| | | (f) | the cutting, grinding or polishing of marble or ceramic tiles. |
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| | (f) | the blending, canning or bottling of any substance; | | (g) | the processing, recovery, refining or treatment of any metal or minerals; | | (h) | the storing, sorting, processing, treatment or recycling of plastic materials, metal scraps, horticultural waste or electrical or electronic waste; | | (i) | the storage of any goods, products or substances; | | (j) | the carrying out of any printing works; | | (k) | as a data centre.”; and |
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| | (c) | by deleting sub‑paragraph (b) of paragraph 3 and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:| “(b) | B is a sum calculated at a rate of —| (i) | for every general building in the development that is a type 1 building —| (A) | $150 for every 100 m2 or part thereof of the first 10,000 m2; and | | (B) | $220 for every subsequent 100 m2 or part thereof, |
| of the SGFA of every storey above sublevel (in respect of which the building works are to be carried out) in that general building; and |
| | (ii) | for every other general building in the development —| (A) | $300 for every 100 m2 or part thereof of the first 2,500 m2; and | | (B) | $240 for every subsequent 100 m2 or part thereof, |
| of the SGFA of every storey above sublevel (in respect of which the building works are to be carried out) in that building.”. |
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