Fire Safety (Buildings Requiring Fire Certificate) Order 2004

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Jul 2004

No. S 458

Fire Safety Act

(Chapter 109A)

Fire Safety (Buildings Requiring Fire Certificate) Order 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(1B) of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Fire Safety (Buildings Requiring Fire Certificate) Order 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2004.

Buildings requiring fire certificate

2.—(1) The following buildings are designated to be buildings whose owners or occupiers are required under section 20 of the Act to apply and obtain a fire certificate from the Commissioner:

(a)

any industrial building which —

(i)	has an occupant load of at least 1,000 persons;
(ii)	has a floor area or site area of at least 5,000 square metres; or
(iii)	exceeds 24 metres in habitable height; and

(b)

every industrial building whose address is set out in the Schedule.

(2) In this paragraph, “habitable height”, in relation to a building, means the height measured from the lowest level a fire engine can have access to the building to the finished floor of the highest habitable floor in that building.

Made this 19th day of July 2004.

TAN GUONG CHING

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[FSB 115/95/V6; AG/LEG/SL/109A/2002/1 Vol. 2]

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