Wall.
Water closet.
Window.
Works.
List of authorised
architects.
Consent of Building Authority required in connection with all
new works. Schedule A.
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(44) "Wall" includes cross wall, external wall, main wall, partition wall, party wall, and every other kind of wall whether supporting any structure or not.
(45) "Water closet" means latrine accommodation used or adapted or intended to be used in connection with a water carriage system and comprising provision for the flushing of the receptacle by a water supply.
(46) "Window" means a structure placed in an opening in the wall of a building and consisting of sashes hinged to or sliding within a framework of wood, metal, brick or cement, so arranged as to admit light and capable, when opened, of also admitting air.
(47) "Works" includes the partial or total constructing, reconstructing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building, retaining wall, chimney-stack, flue, ground, road, well, drain, sewer, and any other building operation whatsoever.
Authorised Architects.
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5.-(1) The Clerk of Councils shall publish annually by notification in the Gazette list of all such architects, engineers and other persons as the Governor in Council may deem qualified to perform the duties required by this Ordinance to be performed by an authorised architect. Such list shall include the names of the Director of Public Works and of such other officers of the Public Works Depart- ment as the Governor in Council may think fit. The Clerk of Councils shall from time to time similarly publish the names of
added to or removed from the last published persons
annual list by Order of the Governor in Council. The last published list as so amended shall be deemed the current authorised list.
(2) The Governor in Council shall not order the insertion of the name of any person in any such list unless he deems him in all respects fit and suitable to be authorised.
(3) The Governor in Council may by order remove the name of any authorised architect who has ceased to practice in the Colony, he may also, on any ground which he may deem sufficient, remove the name of any person he may consider unfit or unsuitable to continue to be authorised; but in such last mentioned case notice shall be given, if practic- able, to the person whose name it is proposed to remove and he shall be entitled to be heard by the Governor in Council, either in person or by counsel, before such removal is made.
Plans, Drawings and Notices.
6. (1) It shall not be lawful to commence any building works without the consent of the Building Authority and the following procedure shall be adopted :-
(a) Notice in writing in or according to the form contained in Schedule A of the intention to commence any. building works shall be given to the Building Authority by leaving the same at his office. Every such notice shall clearly state the locality of the intended building works and the number and section or sub-section of the lot on which it is
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intended to build and shall state any special or material particulars in connection with the same which it is not possible to denote on the plans. Such notice shall also state the name and address of the owner and occupier of the building or lot and shall be signed by such owner or occupier or by the duly authorised agent of such owner or occupier.
submitted.
(b) Proper plans of such building works signed by an Flans to be authorised architect showing the position, form, description and dimensions of all portions thereof shall be submitted to the Building Authority with the aforesaid notice for his approval. If repairs, alterations or additions are intended to be made to any existing building they shall be clearly differ- entiated on the plan from the existing work intended to be left intact or utilised in carrying out such repairs, alterations or additions; and if the Building Authority shall consider it necessary so to do he may require further plans to be sub- mitted of other portions of the existing building and of any adjoining buildings. Unless dispensed with by the Building Authority the details of any drainage to be constructed shall be shown on the plan. Every plan shall be drawn on tracing linen or other material approved by the Building Authority, to a scale of not less than one-tenth of an inch to the foot, and shall contain enlarged details with figured dimensions of the principal features of construction and shall also show the position and levels of the surrounding ground and buiklings. In cases where several alterations are made in the original design during the carrying on of work involving the submission of amended plans, the Building Authority may require the submission of a complete set of new plans shewing the building as completed. In the case of minor alterations or repairs the Building Authority may dispense with the submission of plans by an authorised architect.
(c) A block plan showing clearly the situation of the Block plan. premises and the neighbouring streets and buildings drawn to
a scale of not less than one inch to fifty feet shall be submitted with such plans and if the Building Authority considers it necessary that any levels or development streets be shewn in such block plan he shall be entitled to require the same so to
be shewn.
Buildings.
(d) In the case of a building to be constructed wholly Exceptional or partly of reinforced concrete or steel such plans shall be accompanied by proper and complete calculations relevant to such reinforced concrete or steel to the satisfaction of the Building Authority and by a certificate signed by an authorised architect in the form in Schedule B.
Schedule B,
of authorised
before
(e) In the case of repairs, alterations or additions to any Certificate existing building such plans shall be accompanied by a architect certificate from an authorised architect stating that he has required inspected such building and that in his opinion it is capable
repairs &c. of bearing the weight and stresses of the repairs, alterations to existing
building. or additions proposed to be made in accordance with the said plan and also of any additional weight or stresses which in consequence of such repairs, alterations or additions may be imposed upon it. Such certificate shall be in the form contained in Schedule C.
(f) The Building Authority may also require any other information concerning the proposed building and the uses to which it may be put that he may deem necessary.
Schedule C.
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