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← Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999

Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999 s 33

s 33 Interpretation of this Part

33. In this Part —“amended plans” means plans showing any deviation from, or any amendment or addition to, any plans of controlled works certified by the Director-General in a clearance certificate; “building” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Building Control Act 1989; “clearance certificate” means a certificate described in section 33B(1) and issued under section 33D(2)(a), and includes such certificate issued under section 33D(2)(a) as applied by section 33G; “compliance certificate” means a certificate described in section 33I(1) and issued under section 33I(3)(a); “controlled works” means any building works or industrial plant works; “design certificate” means a certificate described in section 33E(1) and issued under section 33E(3)(a); “developer”, in relation to any controlled works, means the person for whom or on whose behalf the controlled works are carried out; “foundation” means that part of a building which is below or in direct contact with the ground, and through which the weight of the building and the loads acting on the building are transmitted to the ground, and includes any footing, raft or pile of the building; “plans”, in relation to any controlled works —(a) includes drawings, details, diagrams, digital representations generated from building information modelling, structural details and calculations showing or relating to the works; and (b) if prepared in electronic form, includes the medium in which the plans of the works have been stored; “pollution control requirements” means the requirements set out in regulations made under section 77 and any prescribed codes of practice relating to the prevention, reduction or control of pollution of the environment from any completed buildings or industrial plants; “site formation works” means any kind of site formation and includes earthworks for site stabilisation, the construction of foundations, basements, sub-structures, piling, underpinning, ground anchors, trenches or any other kind of ground works; “temporary compliance certificate” means a certificate issued under section 33J(1).[Act 23 of 2023 wef 18/12/2023]

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