Building Control (Temporary Buildings) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 02 Aug 1996

No. S 340

The Building Control Act.

(Chapter 29)

Building Control (Temporary Buildings) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Building Control Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Building Control (Temporary Buildings) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into operation on 15th August 1996.

2. Regulation 3 of the Building Control (Temporary Buildings) Regulations (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the following temporary buildings:

(a)	any worker’s quarters, site office, store, builder’s shed or other shed required in connection with any building works relating to permanent buildings; and
(b)	any show-flat or show-house.”.

[Rg 9.]

3. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(1) A builder who intends to erect any worker’s quarters, site office, store, builder’s shed or other similar type of temporary building comprising 2 storeys or more and required in connection with any building works relating to permanent buildings shall engage a professional engineer to design and supervise the erection of the temporary building.

(1A) An owner who intends to erect any show-flat or show-house comprising 2 storeys or more shall engage a professional engineer to design and supervise the erection of the show-flat or show-house.

(2) On completion of the temporary building, the professional engineer engaged under paragraph (1) or (1A) shall furnish the builder or the owner, as the case may be, with all the plans, designs and calculations of the building together with a certificate of inspection and completion in such form as the Building Authority may require.

(3) The builder or owner, as the case may be, shall not permit any of the temporary buildings referred to in paragraphs (1) and (1A) to be occupied unless paragraph (2) has been complied with.”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the word “builder” in the first line of paragraph (4), the words “or the owner”;

(c)

by deleting sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (4) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“( a) at all times maintain records of the documents referred to in paragraph (2) at the site of such temporary buildings;”; and

(d)	by deleting the words “within building worksite” in the marginal note.

4. Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

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

“(1A) An owner who intends to erect any show-flat or show-house shall ensure that it is —

(a)	completely separated from the construction site by means of robust hoardings or fencing and safety netting to ensure public safety; and
(b)	installed with proper lightning conductors.”; and

(b)

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

Made this 27th day of July 1996.

LAM CHUAN LEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND 202/1-68; AG/SL/1/94]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 53 of the Building Control Act).

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