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(b) the plans and notices to be delivered to the Building

Authority under section 9;

(c) fees;

(d) forms;

(e) planning and design of buildings including-

(i) streets;

(ii) projections;

(iii) heights, volumes and open spaces including scaveng-

ing lanes;

(iv) lighting and ventilation;

(v) sanitation;

(vi) staircases and fire-escapes;

(vii) domestic buildings;

(viii) buildings for special uses including industrial build-

ings, places of public entertainment and schools;

(ix) seawall, breakwater, jetty, male, quay, wharf and

pier;

(x) exceptional structures;

(xi) timber yards, and hoardings and scaffoldings;

()the construction of buildings including-

(i) materials;

(ii) loads and stresses;

(iii) foundations, floors and sites;

(iv) walls and piers;

(v) roofs, flues and chimneys;

(vi) structural steel work, re-inforced concrete, and

timber;

(vii) fire-resisting construction;

(viii) retaining walls;

(ix) plumbing and drainage;

(x) wells;

(xi) lifts and escalators;

(g) the granting of permits for and control of buildings required for a limited time or constructed of short lived materials.

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(2) Such regulations may provide for the carrying out by the Building Authority of all building works required to be carried out therein, and for the recovery of the costs thereof from the person required to carry out such building works.

(3) (4) Such regulations may provide that where the Build-

ing Authority issues permits thereunder he may-

(i) endorse conditions on such permits;

(ii) cancel such permits for breaches thereof; and

(iii) require the permittee to deposit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars as security for the due com- pliance with such conditions,

(B) Upon the breach of any such condition, any deposit required by this subsection shall upon application to a magistrate be declared by him to be forfeited to the Crown.

(4) Such regulations may prescribe contraventions thereof which shall constitute offences and may prescribe penalties not exceeding two thousand dollars and six months imprisonment.

(5) Such regulations shall be published once in the Gasette at least three weeks before coming into operation :

Provided that where the Governor in Council deems it expedient such publication may be dispensed with.

(6) Such regulations amending or replacing other regulations made hereunder may prescribe the period during which the Building Authority may give approval to plans of building works which conform with the regulations before amendment or replacement.

PART IV.

Offences.

27. (1) Any contravention of the provisions of the sections Offences. specified in the table set out in this section, and each of the acts

or omissions therein specified shall be an offence.