On 20/06/2013,
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incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/06/2013.
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10. Section 23 of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:
“(1A) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every person for whom any fire safety works (whether as part of any building works or otherwise) are to start on or after the date of commencement of section 10 of the Fire Safety (Amendment) Act 2004 shall, before making an application under subsection (1) for approval of the plans of those fire safety works, appoint —
(a)
where the plans or any part thereof contain any alternative solution —
(i)
an appropriate qualified person who is a fire safety engineer to prepare those plans or that part thereof containing the alternative solution, or a fire safety engineer to supervise a qualified person to prepare those plans or that part thereof; and
(ii)
another fire safety engineer as a peer reviewer to review and assess whether the alternative solution therein satisfies the fire performance requirements in the Fire Code; or
(b)
in any other case, an appropriate qualified person to prepare the plans of those fire safety works.”;
(b)
by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:
“(4) Where an application is made under subsection (1) regarding any plans of any fire safety works, the Commissioner may, without checking the plans, approve those plans if —
(a)
in the case of plans referred to in subsection (1A)(a), the application and plans are accompanied by —
(i)
a written declaration by the qualified person who prepared those plans declaring that the plans (excluding the alternative solution) have been prepared in accordance with the Fire Code and comply with the provisions of this Act and any regulations made thereunder;
(ii)
a written declaration by the fire safety engineer who prepared or (as the case may be) supervised the preparation of the plans or that part thereof containing the alternative solution, declaring that the alternative solution satisfies the fire performance requirements and complies with the provisions of this Act and any regulations made thereunder; and
(iii)
a certification from the peer reviewer that the alternative solution contained in the plans or that part thereof satisfies the fire performance requirements and complies with the provisions of this Act and any regulations made thereunder; or
(b)
in the case of plans referred to in subsection (1A)(b), the application and plans are accompanied by a written declaration by the qualified person who prepared those plans declaring that the plans have been prepared in accordance with the Fire Code and the provisions of this Act and any regulations made thereunder.”;
(c)
by inserting, immediately after the words “qualified person” in subsection (6)(b), the words “or fire safety engineer or the certificate of a peer reviewer”;
(d)
by deleting paragraph (a) of subsection (11) and substituting the following paragraph:
“(a)
any fire certificate granted under section 20 in respect of any building to which the fire safety works relate; and”; and
(e)
by inserting, immediately after subsection (11), the following subsection: