Building Control (Retrofitting of Casement Windows) (Amendment) Order 2007

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 12 Sep 2007

No. S 479

Building Control Act

(Chapter 29)

Building Control (Retrofitting of Casement Windows) (Amendment) Order 2007

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22C(1) of the Building Control Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Building Control (Retrofitting of Casement Windows) (Amendment) Order 2007 and shall come into operation on 17th September 2007.

Amendment of paragraph 6

2. Paragraph 6 of the Building Control (Retrofitting of Casement Windows) Order 2004 (G.N. No. S 599/2004) is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

“(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), no person shall retrofit any casement window unless —

(a)	he is a trained window installer; or
(b)	he is doing so under the supervision and guidance of a trained window installer.

(1A) No trained window installer shall retrofit, or supervise and guide the retrofitting of, any casement window unless he is —

(a)	a director;
(b)	a partner;
(c)	the sole proprietor; or
(d)	an employee,

of an approved window contractor engaged under paragraph 5.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “sub-paragraph (1)” in sub-paragraph (2), the words “or (1A)”.

Amendment of paragraph 7

3. Paragraph 7 of the Building Control (Retrofitting of Casement Windows) Order 2004 is amended by deleting sub-paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(1) Every approved window contractor and every trained window installer engaged to carry out retrofitting of any casement window shall —

(a)	retrofit the casement window by replacing all its aluminium rivets at the variable geometry stays with stainless steel rivets of type 304 complying with BS EN 10088 or its equivalent; and
(b)	immediately after retrofitting the window but before leaving the site of the retrofitting, take all necessary steps to ensure that the casement window had been properly and securely retrofitted.”.

Made this 10th day of September 2007.

TAN TEE HOW

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND 202/1-7 Pt 1 Vol. 4; AG/LEG/SL/29/2002/1 Vol. 5]

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

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