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Ord. No. 52/74

6.

Repeal and

BUILDINGS (AMENDMENT)

Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and

replacement replaced by the following—

of section 7.

"Disciplin-

ary pro- ceedings in respect of an

authorized person or registered

structural

engineer.

7. (1) Where it appears to the Building Au- thority that an authorized person or a registered structural engineer has been convicted by any court of such offence or has been guilty of such negligence or misconduct as―

(a) renders such person unfit to be on the authorized persons' register or on the structural engineers' register as the case may be; or

(b) makes the further inclusion of such person on the authorized persons' register or on the structural engineers' register, as the case may be, prejudicial to the due administra- tion of this Ordinance; or

(c) renders such person deserving of censure, the Building Authority may bring the matter to the notice of a disciplinary board appointed under section 5.

(2) Where, after due inquiry, the disciplinary board is satisfied that the authorized person or the registered structural engineer has been convicted of such an offence or has been guilty of such negligence or misconduct, such board may—

(a) order that the name of such person be

removed-

(i) from the authorized persons' or the structural engineers' register, as the case may be; or

(ii) if his name appears in both registers, from both registers,

either permanently or for such period as the board thinks fit; or

(b) order that such person be reprimanded; and (c) order that its findings and order be pub-

lished in the Gazette.

(3) On an inquiry under this section, a dis- ciplinary board may make such order as it thinks fit with regard to the payment of the costs of the inquiry