Singapore legislation
Regulation 7
of Building Control (Accredited Checkers and Accredited Checking Organisations) Regulations
Regulation 7
Duties of accredited checkers and accredited checking organisations
Subregulation 1
It shall be the duty of an accredited checker to —
evaluate, analyse and review the structural design in the plans of any building works and perform such original calculations with a view to determining the adequacy of the key structural elements of the building to be erected or affected by building works carried out in accordance with those plans.
[Deleted by S 592/2012 wef 01/12/2012]
Subregulation 2
Without prejudice to paragraph (1), an accredited checker shall in relation to any plans of building works carry out the tasks set out in the Second Schedule.
Subregulation 3
It shall be the duty of the accredited checker and, where the work of the accredited checker is required by the Act to be undertaken by an accredited checker who is either a director, partner, member or an employee of an accredited checking organisation, the accredited checking organisation, to notify the Commissioner of Building Control of any contravention or non-compliance with the provisions of the Act in connection with the structural design of any plans of building works.
Subregulation 4
Nothing in this regulation shall impose any such duty referred to in paragraph (3) on an accredited checker or an accredited checking organisation in respect of any such contravention or non-compliance which he or it, as the case may be, did not know and could not reasonably have discovered.