Appoint-
ment and duties of authorized
person or registered
structural
engineer.
BUILDINGS (AMENDMENT)
Ord. No. 52/74 A321
(11) The Building Authority may remove from the authorized persons' register or the structural engineers' register the name of any person who ceases for any reason to practise the profession in respect of which the name of that person was included in the register.
4. (1)
(1) Every person for whom building works or street works are to be carried out shall appoint-
(a) an authorized person as the co-ordinator of
such building works or street works; and (b) a registered structural engineer as a con- sultant to the authorized person on the structural elements of such building works or street works if so required under this Ordinance.
(2) If an authorized person or a registered structural engineer so appointed becomes unwilling to act or unable, whether by reason of the termination of his appointment or for any other reason, to act, the person for whom the building works or street works are to be or are being carried out shall appoint another authorized person or registered structural engineer, as the case may be, in his stead:
Provided that, where an authorized person or a registered structural engineer, is temporarily unable to act by reason of his illness or absence from Hong Kong, he may nominate another authorized person or registered structural engineer to act in his stead for the period of such illness or absence.
(3) Any authorized person and any registered structural engineer appointed or nominated under subsection (1) or (2) shall—
(a) supervise the carrying out of the building works or street works, as the case may be, in the prescribed manner;
(b) notify the Building Authority of any con- travention of the regulations which would result from the carrying out of any work shown in any plan approved by the Building Authority in respect of the Building works or street works; and