Addition
of new Part VIA.
10. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition, after Part VI, of the following new Part-
Appointment of pancl
Appeal to panel against certain decisions of Building Authority,
(40 of 1965).
"PART VIA.
Review of certain decisions of Building Authority.
34A. (1) The Governor may appoint such authorized architects as he thinks fit to be members of a panel (herein- after referred to as the panel) from which committees of review may be appointed as necessary for the purposes of section 34B.
(2) A member of the panel may resign at any time by giving one month's notice in writing to the Building Authority of his intention to resign, and the Governor may at any time and for any reason whatsoever terminate the appointment of any authorized architect to be a mem- ber of the panel.
34B. (1) Subject to section 34C, any person pre- judiced by the refusal of the Building Authority. in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (k) or (5 of subsection (1) of section 9B or subsection (4) or (5) of section 9B, to approve plans of building works or to con- sent to the commencement of building works, or prejudiced by conditions prescribed by the Building Authority in exercise of the power conferred by item 7 in the table to section 9C, may appeal to the panel, by notice in writing to the Building Authority stating the substance of the matter to which the appeal relates-
(a) at any time before the 1st day of January 1966 where the decision of the Building Authority was made before the commencement of the Buildings (Amendment) Ordinance 1965; or
(b) Within fourteen days of the decision of the Build- ing Authority where the decision was made after the commencement of the Buildings (Amendment) Ordinance 1965,
(2) Whenever an appeal is duly made under sub- section (1), the Colonial Secretary shall, at the request of the Building Authority, appoint a committee of review consisting of three members of the panel (hereinafter referred to as a committee of review) to consider and
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determine the appeal, and may appoint one of the members of the committee of review to be the chairman thereof.
(3) The Building Authority shall serve upon the owner of every building that be considers may be affected by the determination of a committee of review upon an appeal a notice informing him that the appeal has been made and calling upon him to notify the Building Authority, within three days, if he wishes to make repre- sentations to the committes of review.
(4) Subject to the provisions of this section, the pro- cedure of a committee of review upon an appeal shall be such as the committee of review may determine, and neither the appellant nor the Building Authority nor any other person shall be represented in any proceedings of or before a committee of review by counsel or a solicitor.
(5) A committee of review shall afford to the appellant and the Building Authority and any other person who has duly notified the Building Authority that he wishes to make representations to the committee of review (each of whom is hereinafter referred to in this subsection as a party) an opportunity of making representations and of calling witnesses, and any party may put to a witness called by any other party such questions as the committee of review thinks fit, but no party shall be entitled to put questions to any witness examined by the committee of review, or any member of the committee of review, but not called by a party.
(6) Any question coming before a committee of review shall be determined by the vote of the majority of the members of the committee.
(7) For the purpose of exercising its functions under this section, a committee of review, and any member of a committee of review, may enter and inspect any premises that the committee of review considers necessary and may make such openings or take such reasonable samples as the committee of review or such member considers necessary, and any public officer acting on the directions of a committee of review, or a member of a committee of review, may remove anything in or about such premises that may obstruct the inspection by the committee of re- view or such member of the premises or any part thereof