(c) The Registration Committee shall meet at such times and places a8 the Building Authority shall appoint:
Provided that the Building Authority shall call a meeting of the Registration Committee within 21 days of the receipt by bim of a request in writing signed by 2 members of the Registration Committee. (d) A quorum of the Registration Committee shall be 6 members, including the persons referred to in sub-paragraphs (1), (ii) and (vii) of paragraph (6).
(6) Every applicant for inclusion in the author- ized persons" register or the structural engineers" register shall submit his application in the prescribed form to the secretary of the Registration Committee.
(7) No person shall be included in any list in the authorized persons" register or in the structural engineers' register unless he has the prescribed qualifications for inclusion in such list or such register.
(8) Subject to subsection (7), a person's name may be included in both the authorized persons" register and the structural engineers' register and in more than 1 list in the authorized persons' register.
(9) In respect of every application for inclusion in any list in the authorized persons' register or in the structural engineers' register, the Building Au- thority shall within 3 months from the date of the meeting of the Registration Committee at which the application was considered-
(a) on payment by the applicant of the pres- cribed fee, publish in the Gazette and enter in the appropriate list or, as the case may be, register the name of the applicant; or (b) inform the applicant that his application is deferred for a period not exceeding 12 months; or
(c) refuse his application.
(10) Any person whose application for inclusion in any list in the authorized persons' register or the structural engineers' register is refused may appeal to a disciplinary board appointed under section 5.
Appoint- ment and duties of authorized person or Tegistered structural engineer.
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(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) 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 (6) 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 (3) 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
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