SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
STREET, DRAINAGE AND BUILDING ACT 1974 [ACT 133]
G.N. 5178/1984
UNIFORM BUILDING BY-LAWS 1984
Date of publication: 12th September 1985
Date of coming into operation: 13th September 1985
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ARRANGEMENT OF BY-LAWS
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Preamble.
PART I - PRELIMINARY
By-Law 1. Citation.
By-Law 2. Interpretation.
PART II - SUBMISSION OF PLANS FOR APPROVAL
By-Law 3. Submission of plans for approval.
By-Law 4. Return of plan.
By-Law 5. Supervision of work.
By-Law 6. Plans to be signed.
By-Law 7. Withdrawal or change of qualified person.
By-Law 8. Plans to be deposited in triplicate.
By-Law 9. Scale of plans.
By-Law 10. Plans required.
By-Law 11. Exemption from by-law 10.
By-Law 12. Sketch plans for approval in principle.
By-Law 13. Special permission to commence building operations.
By-Law 14. Plans of alteration.
By-Law 15. Specifications.
By-Law 16. Details and calculation of structural plans.
By-Law 17. Power of local authority to reject structural plans and calculations.
By-Law 18. Permits.
By-Law 19. Temporary permits.
By-Law 20. Advertisement hoardings.
By-Law 21. Materials not to be deposited in a street without permission.
By-Law 22. Notice of commencement of resumption of building operations.
By-Law 23. Notice of completion of setting out.
By-Law 24. Notice of completion of excavation for foundation.
By-Law 25. Certificate of fitness for occupation.
By-Law 26. Temporary certificate of fitness for occupation.
By-Law 27. Partial certificate of fitness for occupation.
By-Law 28. Offence under the Act.
By-Law 29. Fees for consideration of plans and for permits.
PART III - SPACE, LIGHT AND VENTILATION
By-Law 30. Open spaces to be provided.
By-Law 31. Open spaces not to be altered or roofed.
By-Law 32. Space about buildings abutting a street and a backlane.
By-Law 33. Space about buildings on lots abutting a street and having no backlane.
By-Law 34. Space about detached buildings.
By-Law 35. Access from a street.
By-Law 36. Splayed corner.
By-Law 37. Projections over the street and over the building line.
By-Law 38. Width of footway.
By-Law 39. Natural lighting and ventilation.
By-Law 40. Air-wells.
By-Law 41. Mechanical ventilation and air-conditioning.
By-Law 42. Minimum areas of rooms in residential buildings.
By-Law 43. Minimum dimensions of latrine, water-closet and bathrooms.
By-Law 44. Height if rooms in residential buildings, shophouses, schools, etc.
By-Law 45. Height of rooms in places of public resorts.
By-Law 46. Height if rooms in other buildings.
By-Law 47. Projections over a verandah-way.
PART IV - TEMPORARY WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH BUILDING OPERATIONS
By-Law 48. Commencement of building operation.
By-Law 49. Responsibility of person granted temporary permits.
By-Law 50. Cancellation of temporary permit.
By-Law 51. Vehicular access to site.
By-Law 52. Rising mains to be installed progressively.
PART V - STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS
By-Law 53. Building materials.
By-Law 54. General requirements of loading.
By-Law 55. Dead and imposed loads.
By-Law 56. Dead loads calculated from weights of materials used.
By-Law 57. Weight of partitions.
By-Law 58. Contents of tanks and other receptacles.
By-Law 59. Imposed floor loads.
By-Law 60. Mechanical stacking.
By-Law 61. Imposed loads on ceilings, skylights and similar structures.
By-Law 62. Reductions in total imposed floor loads.
By-Law 63. Imposed roof loads.
By-Law 64. Curved roofs.
By-Law 65. Roof coverings.
By-Law 66. Internal suspended load on primary structural members.
By-Law 67. Amount of suspended load.
By-Law 68. Dynamic loading.
By-Law 69. Crane gantry girders.
By-Law 70. Parapets and balustrades.
By-Law 71. Vehicle barriers for car-parks.
By-Law 72. Basement walls and floors.
By-Law 73. Foundations.
By-Law 74. Foundations of buildings not exceeding four storeys.
By-Law 75. Reinforced concrete foundations.
By-Law 76. Strip foundations.
By-Law 77. Brick footings.
