Review of Building and Housing Act 1968 Regulations December 2016
"Comprehensive review of the Building and Housing Act 1968 regulations in December 2016, including updates to definitions, roles of entities, reference standards, operational issues, environmental requirements, and penalties. Minimal changes made due to lack of serious operational issues, awaiting stakeholder input for finalization."
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Building and Housing Act 1968 & Regulations Review December 2016
SUMMARY ACTIONS All sections of the Act and Regulations were reviewed and additions and subtractions made as appropriate; Some definitions were beefed up for clarity and relevance including definition of engineer, local authority, controlled area and building control officer; Proposal make various entities to be made local authorities to administer act and regulations; Application in all land in the country urban or rural plus procedure for authority;
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) role defined with relation to professionals for Act, South African standard building regulations SANS 10400 used for reference and removed most of UK references except where alternatives not yet identified; Whilst reference made to South African building regulations, we have given a proviso or relevant standard made by SWASA to recognize that authority developing various standards in the country; Act resilient and allows development of standards independently and then application to act through gazette, enabling it to work for a long time without requiring review;
Regulations have basic operational issues and the details in the various standards referenced; The building application fees have been increased to about E5 for every E1000 {E5000 for a E1 Million building}; Units of measurements have been changed to SI units millimetres, centimetres, metres, kilometres; Reference to asbestos removed;
Environment, Energy and insulation requirements included in schedule of act; Penalties have been stiffened; Forms for application and notices included & improved; Electrification guidelines included; No drastic changes made to act and regulations as there were no serious operational issues; Some input from stakeholder still awaited as documents long.
Way Forward Documents provide basis for discussion Once approved by Committee, respective sections to be referred actors, eg SWSC, SEC, SWASA, Fire, etc. for comments Document long and inputs from stakeholders tend to be limited Overall no concerns on operational requirements of Act and regulations, so allowed to continue and ensure enabling environment for new technology and other construction related standards DOCUMENTS REVIEW GUIDANCE ..workshop/retreat/etc. Ideally review team should read and submit comments, queries
