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A266
Ord. No. 52/71
EDUCATION

(b) accompanied—
(i) by the documents specified in such form; and
(ii) if the school is to be operated in or in any part of any premises which are not designed and constructed for the purposes of a school, by the additional documents specified in subsection (1) of section 12.

Additional documents required where premises not designed and constructed as a school. 12. (1) The documents referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of section 11 shall be—

(a) a certificate from the competent authority as to his opinion with regard to the suitability for the purposes of a school of the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated, having regard to the loading for which they are designed and constructed;
(b) a certificate from the competent authority that the premises in or in part of which the school is to be operated do not have structural timber floors;
(c) a certificate from the Director of Fire Services that the use for the purposes of a school of the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated would not expose the persons in the school premises to any undue risk of fire, and that in the event of fire in the premises in or in part of which the school is to be operated the means of escape for all the persons in the premises (including the persons in the school premises) would be adequate;
(d) if the (Cap. 123.)Buildings Ordinance applies to the premises in or in part of which the school is to be operated, a notice in writing from the Building Authority stating that he does not intend, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 25 of that Ordinance, to prohibit the use for the purposes of a school of the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated; and
(e) if—
(i) the competent authority has certified under paragraph (a) that in his opinion the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated are not suitable for the purposes of a school, having regard to the loading for which they are designed and constructed;
(ii) the premises in or in part of which the school is to be operated were erected prior to the 1st day of January 1946; or