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To provide for the planning, design and construction of buildings and associated works; to make provision for the rendering safe of dangerous buildings and land; and to make provision for matters connected therewith. (Replaced 72 of 1980 s. 2) [1 June 1956] G.N.A. 45 of 1956 (Originally 68 of 1955) Cap 123 s 1 Short title (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Buildings Ordinance. (2) This Ordinance shall apply to the New Territories in the manner provided by the Buildings Ordinance (Application to the New Territories) Ordinance (Cap 121). (Replaced 60 of 1987 s. 14) Cap 123 s 2 Interpretation Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 29 of 1998 s. 105; 62 of 2000 s. 3 (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "access road" (通路) means a road on land held under lease, licence or otherwise from the Government or on land over which the Government has granted a right of way, providing access only to buildings used or intended to be used wholly or mainly for purposes of habitation, and which is not a street; (Added 44 of 1959 s. 2. Amended 29 of 1998 s. 105) "Architects Registration Board" (建筑师注册管理局) means the Architects Registration Board established by section 4 of the Architects Registration Ordinance (Cap 408); (Added 54 of 1996 s. 2) "authorized person" (认可人士) means a person whose name is on the authorized persons' register kept under section 3(1)- (a) as an architect; (b) as an engineer; or (c) as a surveyor; (Replaced 54 of 1996 s. 2)"building" (建筑物) includes the whole, or any part, of any domestic or public building or building which is constructed or adapted for use for public entertainment, arch, bridge, cavern adapted or constructed to be used for the storage of petroleum products, chimney, cook-house, cowshed, dock, factory, garage, hangar, hoarding, latrine, matshed, office, oil storage installation, out-house, pier, shelter, shop, stable, stairs, wall, warehouse, wharf, workshop or tower, sea-wall, breakwater, jetty, mole, quay, cavern or any underground space adapted or constructed for occupation or use for any purpose including its associated access tunnels and access shafts, pylon or other similar structure supporting an aerial ropeway and such other structures as the Building Authority may by notice in the Gazette declare to be a building; (Amended 44 of 1959 s. 2; 19 of 1976 s. 32; 16 of 1978 s. 2; 5 of 1983 s. 2; 68 of 1993 s. 2; 72 of 1995 s. 15) "Building Authority" (建筑事务监督) means the Director of Buildings; (Amended L.N. 76 of 1982; L.N. 94 of 1986; L.N. 291 of 1993) "building owner" (建筑物拥有人) means a person desiring to build a new building or to alter an existing building and shall include the agent of and authorized person appointed by a building owner; (Amended 91 of 1990 s. 2) "building works" (建筑工程) includes any kind of building construction, site formation works, ground investigation in the scheduled areas, foundation works, repairs, demolition, alteration, addition and every kind of building operation, and includes drainage works; (Amended 72 of 1980 s. 3; 41 of 1982 s. 2; 52 of 1990 s. 2) "composite building" (综合用途建筑物) means a building that is partly domestic and partly non-domestic; (Added 73 of 1983 s. 2) "contraventions of the provisions of this Ordinance" (违反本条例的条文) includes failure to comply with any order given or any condition imposed by the Building Authority under the provisions of this Ordinance and any material divergence or deviation from any plan approved by him; (Added 44 of 1959 s. 2) "dangerous building" (危险建筑物) means any building in such a condition as to cause risk of injury either to the occupiers or users of such building or to the occupiers or users of any neighbouring building or to the general public; "design assumption" (设计假定) means an assumption stated or implied in the design calculations or other documentation in respect of building works submitted to the Building Authority; (Added 72 of 1980 s. 3) "domestic" (住用), when used in relation to a part of a composite building, means a part that is constructed or intended for habitation; (Added 73 of 1983 s. 2) "domestic building" (住用建筑物) means a building constructed or intended to be used for habitation and the expression "domestic purposes" (住用用途) shall be construed accordingly; (Added 73 of 1983 s. 2) "drain" (排水渠) means a drain used for the drainage of one building and any buildings and yards appurtenant thereto; (Added 44 of 1959 s. 2) "drainage works" (排水工程) means any work connected with the construction, repair, alteration, disconnexion, trapping and ventilation of drains or sewers; (Added 44 of 1959 s. 2) "Engineers Registration Board" (工程师注册管理局) means the Engineers Registration Board established by section 3 of the Engineers Registration Ordinance (Cap 409); (Added 54 of 1996 s. 2) |