Clause 8

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) The Commissioner may, by notice in writing, require the owner or occupier of any building subject to this section to apply and obtain a fire certificate from the Commissioner.(1A) The following buildings shall be subject to this section:

any public building which has an occupant load of more than 200 persons or, if so specified, such other occupant load as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, specify; and

any other particular building, or any building in any other class of buildings, designated by the Minister under subsection (1B) to be subject to this section.(1B) Where, in the opinion of the Minister, any fire within any building (whether used as a residential building or an industrial building or otherwise) is likely to be a significant source of danger to the occupants in the building, or to life or property in the vicinity of that building, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, designate that particular building or a class of such buildings to be subject to this section.”;

by deleting the words “the building or part thereof” in the 1st line of subsection (2) and substituting the words “any building subject to this section”; and

by deleting subsection (5) and substituting the following subsection:“(5) In this section —“industrial building” means any building or part of a building which is used wholly or mainly for —

the manufacture of goods or materials or the subjection of goods or materials to any process, including any research or development for any manufacturing trade or business; or

the purposes of any water, gas, telecommunication, electricity or other industrial undertaking, including research and development for any such industrial undertaking;“occupant load”, in relation to a building, means the number of persons that may safely occupy the building at any one time.”.