29A. Interpretation of this Part

Terms defined in s 2

• builder

  builder

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  “builder” means any person who undertakes, whether exclusively or in conjunction with any other business, to carry out any building works for the person’s own account or for or on behalf of another person but does not include a sub-contractor in relation to those building works;

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• building

  building

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  “building” means any permanent or temporary building or structure and includes —(a)a hut, shed or roofed enclosure;(b)an earth retaining or stabilising structure, whether permanent or temporary;(c)a dock, wharf or jetty;(ca)a floating structure, not being a boat or vessel, constructed or to be constructed on a flotation system that —(i)is or is to be supported by water;(ii)is not intended for or useable in navigation; and(iii)is or is to be permanently moored;(d)a culvert, crossing, bridge, underpass or tunnel;(da)a fixed installation;(e)a sewage treatment plant, sewer, drain, swimming pool or any non‑proprietary type of concrete tank for the storage of any solid, liquid or gaseous product;(f)a shelter provided under the Civil Defence Shelter Act 1997; and(g)such other erection or structure (whether permanent or temporary) as the Minister may, by order in the Gazette, declare to be a building;

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• building works

  building works

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  “building works” means —(a)the erection, extension or demolition of a building;(b)the alteration, addition or repair of a building;(c)the provision, extension or alteration of any air conditioning service or ventilating system in or in connection with a building,and includes any fixed installation works, and any site formation works connected with or carried out for the purpose of paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

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• fixed installation works

  fixed installation works

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  “fixed installation works” means —(a)the installation of any fixed installation;(b)the carrying out of such major alteration or replacement works as may be prescribed in respect of any fixed installation; or(c)the testing and commissioning, following the completion of any works mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b), of any fixed installation;

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• general building works

  general building works

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  “general building works” means any building works other than specialist building works;

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• insignificant building works

  insignificant building works

  Defined · s 2

  “insignificant building works” means any building works that are prescribed under section 4(d);

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• licensed general builder

  licensed general builder

  Defined · s 2

  “licensed general builder” means a person to whom a general builder’s licence is granted but excludes the person when the general builder’s licence is not in force;

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• licensed specialist builder

  licensed specialist builder

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  “licensed specialist builder”, for any specialist building works, means a person to whom a specialist builder’s licence is granted in respect of those specialist building works but excludes the person when that specialist builder’s licence is not in force;

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• limited liability partnership

  limited liability partnership

  Defined · s 2

  “limited liability partnership” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005;

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• minor building works

  minor building works

  Defined · s 2

  “minor building works” means building works (not being geotechnical building works) that are prescribed in the building regulations as building works the plans of which do not require a certification from an accredited checker for the purposes of section 5 or 5A;

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• qualified person

  qualified person

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  “qualified person” means a person who is registered as —(a)an architect under the Architects Act 1991 and has in force a practising certificate issued under that Act; or(b)a professional engineer under the Professional Engineers Act 1991 and has in force a practising certificate issued under that Act;

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• site supervisor

  site supervisor

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  “site supervisor” means a person appointed (whether alone or as a member of a team of site supervisors) under section 10 to be a site supervisor in respect of any small‑scale or large building works;

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• specialist building works

  specialist building works

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  “specialist building works” means any of the following types of building works:(a)piling works consisting of the installation and testing of any of the following:(i)pre-cast reinforced concrete or pre-stressed concrete piles;(ii)steel piles;(iii)bored cast-in-place reinforced concrete piles;(iv)caissons;(v)special pile types like micro-piles, barrettes piles and composite piles;(vi)embedded retaining wall piles like diaphragm walls, contiguous bored piles and secant piles;(b)ground support and stabilisation works, including installation and testing of ground anchors, soil nails, rock bolts, ground treatment like chemical grouting and jet-grouting, reinforced-earth, shotcreting and tunnel supports;(c)instrumentation and monitoring works comprising the installation and monitoring of instruments measuring forces, deformation, displacements, tilt, convergence, pore and earth pressures or ground-water levels;(d)structural steelwork consisting of any of the following:(i)fabrication of structural steel elements;(ii)site erection of structural steel elements involving the cutting, welding or tightening of high-friction grip bolts;(iii)installation or removal of steel supports for geotechnical building works;(e)pre-cast concrete work comprising fabrication of pre-cast structural elements;(f)in-situ post-tensioning work consisting of any of the following:(i)setting out of tendon profiles;(ii)laying of conduits, anchorages or bursting reinforcement;(iii)pulling or stressing of strands or bars;(iv)pressure grouting of conduits;(g)such other building works as the Minister may, by order in the Gazette, declare;

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• sub-contractor

  sub-contractor

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  “sub-contractor”, in relation to any general building works or specialist building works, means a person engaged (otherwise than under a contract of service) by —(a)in the case of general building works — any licensed general builder to supply any labour for or to do any part of those general building works which the licensed general builder has been engaged to do under another contract;(b)in the case of a type of specialist building works — any licensed specialist builder for that type of specialist building works to supply any labour for or to do any part of those specialist building works which the licensed specialist builder has been engaged to do under another contract with —(i)a developer; or(ii)a licensed general builder; or(c)another person who is a sub-contractor by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) or this paragraph to supply any labour for or to do any part of the building works which that other person has been engaged to do under another contract;

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• temporary building

  temporary building

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  “temporary building” means —(a)any building or structure not more than 2 storeys high constructed of short‑lived materials;(b)any other building or structure not more than 2 storeys high permitted to be used by the competent authority or Commissioner of Building Control for a period not exceeding 36 months, or any other period that may be prescribed (if prescribed) in the building regulations;(c)any building used as workers’ quarters, a site office, a show‑flat or show‑house, a builder’s shed, store or other shed required in connection with any building works for a permanent building; or(d)any structure used only for the outdoor display of an advertisement or signboard,but does not include any bridge, any decking for a bridge, or any earth retaining structure;

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