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FIRE SAFETY (BUILDINGS) ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 21 of 2002
A1721

PART II
Compliance with Fire Safety Measures

5. Owner or occupier may be directed to comply with fire safety measures

(1) Where one person owns all of it, the relevant enforcement authority may serve on the owner of a composite building or domestic building a fire safety direction directing him to comply with—

(a) in the case of a composite building—
(i) with respect to the part that is intended for non-domestic purposes, all or any of the requirements in Schedule 1;
(ii) with respect to the part that is intended for domestic purposes, all or any of the requirements in Schedule 2;
(b) in the case of a domestic building, all or any of the requirements in Schedule 2,

or such other measures in place of any of the requirements in Schedule 1 or 2, as the case may be, as the relevant enforcement authority considers appropriate, if he is of the opinion that it would not be reasonable for the owner to comply with such requirements, having regard to the structural integrity of the building and the technology available to comply with such requirements.

(2) Where more than one person owns it and each owner has an exclusive right to occupy a specified part of it, the relevant enforcement authority may serve on the owner of a composite building or domestic building, in respect of the relevant part he exclusively occupies or in respect of the part he does not exclusively occupy, a fire safety direction directing him to comply with—

(a) in the case of part of a composite building—
(i) with respect to a part that is intended for non-domestic purposes, all or any of the requirements in Schedule 1;
(ii) with respect to a part that is intended for domestic purposes, all or any of the requirements in Schedule 2;
(b) in the case of part of a domestic building, all or any of the requirements in Schedule 2,