- (b) a building—
- (i) of not more than 3 storeys;
- (ii) having a roofed-over area of not more than 65.03 m2; and
- (iii) having a height of not more than 8.23 m;
- (c) a proposed monument or a proposed historical building declared under section 2A of the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance (Cap. 53); or
- (d) a monument or a historical building declared under section 3 of the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance (Cap. 53).
(2) This Ordinance does not apply to a building if the Director is satisfied on a declaration by the owner of the building that the building will cease to exist within 12 months after the date of the declaration.
(3) This Ordinance does not apply to the building services installations specified in Schedule 2.
5. Determination of application threshold
If the applicability of any provision of this Ordinance is to be determined by reference to any threshold including the approved loading of a main electrical switch, the rating of an installation or the floor area of any place, the calculation or measurement must, unless otherwise prescribed, be made at the time when the relevant works have been completed.
6. Jointly owned etc. building
If—
- (a) this Ordinance imposes a requirement on the owner of any building, common area of a building or central building services installation or on the responsible person of a unit of a building; and
- (b) the building, common area or installation is jointly owned by 2 or more persons or the unit has 2 or more responsible persons,
compliance with the requirement by one of the joint owners or responsible persons is regarded as compliance with the requirement by every other joint owner or responsible person.
