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(v) sanitation;

(vi) staircases and fire-escapes:

(vii) domestic buildings:

(viii) buildings for special uses including industrial buildings, places of public entertainment and schools:

(ix) any seawall, breakwater, jetty, mole, quay.

wharf or pier;

(x) exceptional structures; and

(xi) timber yards, hoardings and scaffoldings;

(d) the construction of buildings including

(1) materials;

(ü) 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; and

(xii) refuse chutes;

(e) lifts and escalators, including the carrying out of

other works in connexion with lift works;

(f) the testing of drainage works and matters

ancillary thereto;

(g) the granting of permits for and control of buildings required for a limited time or con- structed of short-lived materials:

(b) plans, notices and certificates to be delivered to

the Building Authority?"

(0 fees;

O forms:

(k) the better carrying into effect of the purposes of

this Ordinance.";

(b) the deletion of subsection (6).

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19. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition, after Addition of section 26, of the following new section-

"Application

of new regulations.

26A. (1) Any regulations made under this Ordinance may provide that where plans of building works, street works, lift works or escalator works are submitted to the Building Authority within such period from the coming into operation of the regulations as may be prescribed therein, he may approve any such plans which comply with the provisions of the law before the coming into operation of such regulations and may give consent to the commence- ment of the works shown therein; and the provisions of subsection (2) shall apply to such works and to any building which may be erected, any street or access road which may be formed, constructed or laid out or any lift or escalator installed in consequence thercof.

(2) Where at the date of the coming into operation of any regulations made under this Ordinance any building works, street works, lift works or escalator works are being carried out or consent to their commencement has been given the provisions of the law prior to the coming into operation of such regulations shall apply to such works:

Provided that in the exercise of his powers under section 11 the Building Authority may require compliance with such regulations coming into operation since the giving of his consent to the commenceasent of the works in respect of which be is exercising such powers.".

20. Section 27 of the principal Ordinance is amended by-

(a) in subsection (2)—–—

(i) the insertion after the word "works" in the first item of paragraph (1) in the table of the words "or street works"; (ii) the addition, at the end of paragraph (1) in the table, of the following-

"subsection (1) of section 20A-(Openings to or from streets).":

(ii) the deletion of paragraph (5) in the table and the substitution therefor of the following-

"(5) The use by any person for whom building works, street works, lift works or escalator works are being carried out, or by any authorized architect, registered contractor, registered Bft contractor or registered

new section 264.

Amendment

of section 27.