Cap. 513 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 321. Cap 390. S.L. 552.09 Cap. 390. Cap. 321.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: "authorised person" means a person authorised for the purposes of this Act by the Director, Building Regulation Office, or by the Building Regulation Board (in the case of appeals in accordance with article 13), as the case may be; "the Board" means the Building Regulation Board established under article 3; "building" includes part of a building and any class of structures which are prescribed by the Minister to be a building for the purposes of this Act; "building contractors and building tradespersons" means any person, including a body of persons and any body corporate established by or under any law, who is listed under article 5(4); "building matter" means any building or other matter whatsoever to which this Act or any building regulations are in any circumstances applicable;

"building regulations" means regulations made by the Minister under article 6;

"Building Regulation Office" means the Government organisation which is responsible for the administration of building regulations and building control regulations made in accordance with this Act which administration may include, but is not limited to, the issue of licences and registration of masons, building contractors and tradespersons, the monitoring of the application of building regulations, the endorsement of certificates of compliance, the enforcement of building control regulations and the provision of technical assistance to the Board, in the preparation of technical guidance documents;

"certificates of compliance" means documents issued by a perit or warranted engineer, to certify that a building or works conform with building regulations; "construction" includes the execution of works in connection with buildings and any act or operation necessary for or related to the construction, extension, alteration, repair or renewal of a building and "constructed" shall be construed accordingly;

"design" includes the preparation of plans, particulars, drawings,

*See article 1(2) of the Act as originally enacted, and Legal Notice 467 of 2011. specifications, calculations and other expressions of purpose according to which the construction, extension, alteration, repair or renewal concerned are to be executed, but shall not include matters relating to development planning, urban design and aesthetics, and "designed" shall be construed accordingly; "the Director" means the Director responsible for the Building Regulation Office or any public officer duly appointed to assume the responsibilities of the Building Regulation Office; "enforcement notice” has the meaning assigned to it by article 14; "fire consultant" means any person or firm who, after applying to the Director, Building Regulation Office and presenting to the said Director diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications indicating the holder’s professional knowledge and experience in fire safety engineering, is accepted and registered by the Director as a recognised fire safety consultant;

"functions" includes powers and duties; "inġinier" has the meaning assigned to it in the Inġiniera Act;

"mason" means any person who has a licence issued by the Director, Building Regulation Office, to construct wholly or in part, any stone or brick building laid in mortar, or concrete building, even though the work done or commenced by such person consists merely in the erection of a wall intended to form part of a building, or in the formation of a cistern, privy, sink or cesspool or of a conduit for the passage of filthy water or sewage matter;

"the Minister" means the Minister responsible for the building industry;

"operative date" means the day on which particular building regulations first come into operation;

"perit" has the meaning as defined by the term "profession", in the Periti Act;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act; "site manager" means a person carrying out the duty or duties derived from the provisions of the Environmental Management Construction Site Regulations. Such person shall be nominated by, and be responsible on behalf of, the owner for ensuring the correct implementation of the aforementioned regulations; "technical guidance document" means a document which provides technical guidance on matters relating to any aspect of building regulations and shall also include any methodology; "warranted", in relation to a or an engineer, means a person perit who holds a warrant to practice as a perit or as an engineer, as the case may be, under the Periti Act or the Inġiniera Act;

"works" includes any act or operation in connection with the construction, extension, alteration, repair or renewal of a building.