Section 2

any alteration to any building in contravention of any written law relating to building works or fire safety works such as might render escape in the event of fire more difficult;

the overcrowding of any public building or any building used occasionally or regularly for public worship or religious ceremonies such as might render escape in the event of fire more difficult;

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any removal from any building of any fire safety measure which was provided in such building in accordance with plans approved by the Director under section 26;

the presence in any building of any fire safety measure which from lack of proper maintenance or for any other reason is not in efficient working order;

the obstruction of escape routes, passageways, common property or limited common property of any building such as might render escape in the event of fire more difficult; and

any other matter or circumstance which would materially hamper the Force in the discharge of its duties in the event of fire;

“fire hazard abatement notice” means a notice in writing issued by the Director under section 16(1);

“fire protection system” includes any installation, equipment or works manufactured, used or designed to be used for the purposes of —

extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire and its by-product; or

giving warning of a fire;

“fire protection works” means the provision, extension or alteration of any fire protection system;

“fire safety measures” includes any installation, equipment or works manufactured, used or designed to be used for the purposes of —

extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire and controlling the spread of smoke resulting from the fire;

giving warning of a fire;

providing access to any premises or place for the purpose of extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire;

providing means of escape; or

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providing a means of communication to facilitate fire-fighting operations or the evacuation of persons in the event of fire;

“fire safety works” means any fire protection works, fire safety measures, relevant pipeline works or minor works;

“flammable material” means any substance prescribed to be a flammable material for the purposes of this Act;

“member” means a person who is either a senior officer, a subordinate officer, or of the rank and file of the Fire and Rescue;

“minor works” means —

the addition, alteration or repair of a building that involves the use of combustible materials or that affects the means of escape or the effectiveness of fire safety measures; or

the provision, extension or alteration of any air-conditioning service or ventilating system in or in connection with a building;

“occupier”, in relation to any premises, means the person in occupation of the premises or having the charge, management or control thereof and, in relation to any part of any premises different parts of which are occupied by different persons, means the person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of that part;

“owner” —

in relation to any premises, includes any mortgagee in possession and any person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises whether on his own account or as agent or trustee or as receiver, or who would receive the same if the premises were let to a tenant:

in relation to the common property of any building erected on land comprised in a strata subdivision plan approved by the competent authority, means the management corporation having control of the building;

in relation to the limited common property of any building erected on land comprised in a strata subdivision plan approved by the competent authority, means the subsidiary

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management corporation having control of that limited common property;

in respect of any fire safety measure, includes the occupier or the owner of the premises in or on which the fire safety measure is installed or kept;

in relation to an aircraft or a vessel, includes the charterer of the aircraft or vessel, as the case may be; and

in relation to a vehicle, means the registered owner of the vehicle;

“petroleum” includes crude petroleum, liquefied petroleum gas and other naturally occurring hydrocarbon liquid derived from crude petroleum, coal, shale, peat or other bituminous substances;

“pipeline” includes any section of a pipeline;

“pipeline owner”, in relation to any section of a relevant pipeline, means —

a person who owns or leases the piperack or pipetrack and manages that section of the relevant pipeline; or

if paragraph (a) does not apply, a person who owns or leases that section of the relevant pipeline and uses that section of the relevant pipeline for the conveyance of any class of petroleum or any flammable material:

“piperack” means a multi-tiered rack supporting one or more pipelines above the ground;

“pipetrack” means an area where one or more pipelines are supported on sleepers on the ground;

“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built or not, whether public or private, and whether or not maintained under statutory authority;

“public building” means a building or part of a building —

used as a hospital or a nursing home;

used ordinarily or occasionally to provide residential care to aged persons or child care for groups of children;

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used wholly or mainly as or in connection with a hotel, shop or restaurant; or

where the public or any part thereof or numbers of persons occasionally or regularly assemble for —

civic or social (but not religious or educational)

purposes;

an architect under the

Architects,

Professional

Engineers and Quantity Surveyors Order, 2011 (S 33/2011) and has in force a practising certificate issued under section 26 of that Order; or

a professional engineer under the

Architects,

Professional Engineers and Quantity Surveyors Order, 2011

(S 33/2011) and has in force a practising certificate issued under section 26 of that Order;

“rank and file” means a member of the Fire and Rescue below the rank of a subordinate officer;

“regulations” means regulations made under section 63;

“relevant pipeline” means a pipeline used, or to be used, for the conveyance of any class of petroleum or any flammable material, and includes the piperack or pipetrack for the management of the pipeline but does not include such a pipeline located in licensed premises;

“relevant pipeline works” means the construction, alteration or repair of a relevant pipeline;

“senior officer” means a member of the Fire and Rescue of the rank of Superintendent or above;

“street” includes —

any road, bridge, underpass, tunnel, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way; and

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any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not, and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves that are deemed to be part of the street;

“subordinate officer” means a member of the Fire and Rescue of the rank of Station Officer or Assistant Station Officer;

“vessel” includes —

any ship or boat or air-cushioned vehicle; and

any rig or platform, whether floating at sea or fixed to the sea bed, used in any form of operations at sea.