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powers vested in him by section 16 of that Ordinance, to prohibit the use of the premises for the purposes of a school; and

(e) where the Director of Public Works has, in a certificate issued for the purposes of para- graph (a), certified that it is his opinion that the premises are not, by reason of the loading for which they were designed and constructed, suitable for the purposes of a school, a certi- ficate from an authorized architect that the premises are in sound structural condition.

(2) In giving a certificate for the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection (1), the Chief Officer may prescribe any provisions which he considers should be made to minimize the risk of fire or the danger from panic in the event of fire, and may specify whether or not such provisions are to be made before the school is registered.

(3) Every application to the Director of Public Works, the Building Authority or the Chief Officer for a certificate or notice, as the case may be, required for the purposes of subsection (1), shall be made in the form prescribed by the Director and shall be accompanied by plans of the premises showing the parts thereof to be used for the purposes of a school.

(4) Without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordinance, no school which is to be operated in premises not designed and constructed for the purposes of a school shall be registered-

(a) where the application for registration was not accompanied by all the certificates and notices required by subsection (1); or

(b) where, if, in the exercise of the powers vested in him by subsection (2), the Chief Officer has specified provisions which are to be made before the school is registered, such provisions have not been made.

Post Becondary colleges not to be registered without consent of Governor.

(5) The Director of Public Works may appoint any officer of the Public Works Department to exercise the powers and perform the duties required, by the provisions of this section, to be exercised or performed by him.

(6) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect any powers vested in the Building Authority under any of the provisions of the Buildings Ordin- ance, 1955.

108. No post secondary college shall be register- ed unless the Governor has consented to such registra- tion.

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7. Section 11 of the principal Ordinance is amended by-

Amendment of section

(a) the deletion of paragraph (a) and the substitution there- 11.

for of the following-

"(a) that there would be any danger to persons using the proposed school premises whether arising inside or outside such premises or that there would be a risk of any such danger; or"';

(b) the deletion of paragraph (b);

(c) the deletion, from paragraph (c), of the words “reasons of

health" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"any reason whatsoever**;

(d) the deletion, from paragraph (7), of the word "constitu- tion" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"'composition" ;

(e) the insertion, after paragraph (!), of the following new

paragraph-

"() that any part of the proposed school premises—

(1) were to have been used for the purposes of

a school in relation to which registration

has previously been refused; or