Hong Kong Ordinances

BUILDINGS ORDINANCE

- CHAPTER 123

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Registers of authorized persons, structural engineers and geotechnical
           engineers
   4.      Appointment and duties of authorized person, registered structural
           engineer or registered geotechnical engineer
   5.      Appointment and powers of disciplinary board
   5A.     Authorized Persons', Registered Structural Engineers' and Registered
           Geotechnical Engineers' Disciplinary Board Panel
   5AA.    Secretary to the disciplinary board
   6.      (Repealed 77 of 1994 s. 5)
   7.      Disciplinary proceedings for authorized person, registered structural
           engineer or registered geotechnical engineer
   8.      Contractors Registration Committee
   8A.     Registers of contractors, etc.
   8B.     Application for registration as a contractor
   8C.     Renewal of registration as a contractor
   8D.     Restoring name to register of contractors
   8E.     Building Authority to give reasons
   8F.     Effective dates
   8G.     (Repealed 15 of 2004 s. 13)
   9.      Appointment and duties of registered contractors
   9A.     Appeals from Registration Committees
   10.     (Repealed 43 of 1993 s. 3)
   11.     Appointment and powers of disciplinary board
   11A.    Contractors' Disciplinary Board Panel
   11AA.   Secretary to the disciplinary board
   12.     (Repealed 77 of 1994 s. 8)
   13.     Disciplinary proceedings for contractors
   13A.    Appeal against Building Authority's decision
   14.     Approval and consent required for commencement of building works,
           etc.
   14A.    Building Authority not deemed to consent if supervision plan not
           lodged
   15.     Approval and consent deemed to be given unless refusal notified
   16.     Grounds on which approval or consent may be refused
   17.     Conditions may be imposed in certain cases
   17A.    Incompatibility with sewage tunnel works
   18.     Authority to erect shoring in certain cases
   18A.    Claims for compensation
   19.     Provision for urgent work
   20.     Resumption of work suspended
   21.     Occupation of new building
   22.     Powers of Building Authority
   23.     Building works, etc. to cease on order of Building Authority
   24.     Order for demolition, removal, or alteration of building, building
           works or street works
   24A.    Order to cease or remedy dangerous works
   24B.    Priority demolition
   24C.    Notice for demolition or alteration of building or building works
   25.     Change in use of buildings
   26.     Dangerous buildings
   26A.    Defective buildings
   27.     Closure Order
   27A.    Dangerous hillsides, etc.
   27B.    Danger to buildings caused by abstraction of groundwater from wells
   27C.    Water pipes, drains or sewers laid in slopes, etc.
   28.     Drainage
   28A.    Groundwater drainage works in scheduled area
   28B.    Authorization to carry out relevant works in case of objection etc.
           by persons whose property is affected
   28C.    Magistrate's warrant
   28D.    Obligation to make good, and compensation for, damage
   29.     Construction and maintenance of private streets and access roads
   29A.    Maintenance of emergency vehicular access
   30.     Openings to or from streets
   31.     Projections on or over streets
   32.     Naming of streets and numbering of buildings
   32A.    Carrying out of other works and provision of services
   32B.    Cost of abortive visit
   33.     Recovery of costs of works by Building Authority
   34.     Disposal of materials resulting from works carried out by Building
           Authority
   35.     Service of notices and orders
   36.     Admissibility in evidence of certified copies of documents, etc.
   36A.    Effect of documents, etc. recorded on microfilm or other form of
           record
   36B.    Disposal of document
   37.     Limitation of public liability
   38.     Regulations
   39.     Application of new regulations
   39A.    Technical memorandum
   39B.    Obstruction of owners' corporation
   40.     Offences
   41.     Exemptions
   42.     Building Authority's powers of exemption
   43.     Interpretation
   44.     Appeals from decisions of Building Authority
   45.     Appeal Tribunal Panel
   46.     Secretary to the Appeal Tribunal
   47.     Notice of appeal
   48.     Appeal Tribunal
   49.     Preliminary hearing
   50.     Determination of appeal
   51.     Power to award costs
   52.     Representation
   53.     Inspection
   53A.    Immunity
   53B.    Offences in respect of Appeal Tribunal
   53C.    Case stated
   53D.    Chairman's power to determine procedure
   53E.    Interpretation
   53F.    (Omitted as spent)
   53G.    Preservation of right of appeal and determination of pending
           applications
   53H.    Inclusion of certain registered professional engineers in geotechnical
           engineers' register
   53I.    Application for inclusion in geotechnical engineers' register without
           prescribed qualifications
   53J.    Transitional provisions for other miscellaneous matters
   54.     Saving
   55.     Validation
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6


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