Section 23
Fire certificate
(1)
The Director 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 Director.
(2)
The following buildings shall be subject to this section —
(a)
any public building which has an occupant load of more than two hundred persons or, if so specified with such other occupant load as the Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, specify;
(b)
any other particular building, or any building in any other class of buildings, designated by the Minister under subsection (3) to be subject to this section.
(3)
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.
(4)
The Director may, pending compliance with any requirements relating to fire safety affecting any part of a building subject to this section, issue a fire certificate in respect only of any other part of the building if he is satisfied that those requirements do not affect the fire safety of that other part of the building.
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(5)
No person shall occupy or use any building or part thereof subject to this section or permit the building or part thereof to be occupied or used without a fire certificate authorising such occupation or use.
(6)
Such application shall be in accordance with the regulations made under this Act.
(7)
Any person to whom subsection (1) or (5) applies who contravenes subsection (1) or (5) is guilty of an offence.
(8)
In this section —
“industrial building” means any building or part of a building which is used wholly or mainly for —
(a)
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
(b)
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.