### Building (Administration) Regulations 《建築物(管理)規例》

4A. Requirements for inclusion in registers of general building contractors and specialist contractors
(1) Every person making application to be included in the register of general building contractors or the register of specialist contractors shall—
(a) produce to the relevant Contractors Registration Committee documentary evidence to prove that he is suitable for registration in the relevant register or sub-register in terms of qualifications, experience and competence;
(b) in the case where the applicant is a body corporate, produce to the relevant Contractors Registration Committee documentary evidence relating to the directors, other officers and any person appointed by the applicant to act for it for the purposes of the Ordinance to show the qualifications, experience and competence of those persons; and
(c) satisfy the relevant Contractors Registration Committee that he or it is suitable to be registered in the relevant register or sub-register.
(2) An applicant, or if the applicant is a body corporate, the directors, other officers and any person appointed by the applicant to act for it for the purposes of the Ordinance, shall attend an interview before the relevant Contractors Registration Committee if the Committee requires him or it to attend.
(L.N. 514 of 1997; 15 of 2004 s. 38)

5. Authorized person, registered structural engineer or registered geotechnical engineer not to act as contractor, etc. without disclosure to client
No authorized person, registered structural engineer or registered geotechnical engineer shall act as a contractor or deal in building materials or receive any payment, commission, advantage or benefit of any kind whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, from any contractor, sub-contractor or supplier of building materials or other goods used in or in connexion with any building works or street works without disclosing the fact, in writing, to his client.
(L.N. 188 of 1974; 15 of 2004 s. 39)

5A. Registered inspector not to deal in building materials etc. without disclosure to client
A registered inspector must not deal in building materials or receive any payment, commission, advantage or benefit of any kind, whether directly or indirectly, from any contractor, sub-contractor or supplier of building materials or other goods used in or in connection with any building works without disclosing the fact, in writing, to the registered inspector’s client.
(L.N. 147 of 2011)

### Building (Administration) Regulations 《建築物(管理)規例》

6. Delivery of notices, plans, etc.
(1) Every notice, form, certificate, plan or other document required by the Ordinance or regulations made thereunder to be sent to the Building Authority shall be sent to him by post or by delivering the same to his office during office hours.
(2)  Where any plans submitted to the Building Authority for his approval or the building works or street works shown thereon do not comply with the provisions of the Ordinance or regulations, the Building Authority may charge the applicant the prescribed fee in respect of every further submission to the Building Authority of such plans: (L.N. 63 of 1966; L.N. 188 of 1974; L.N. 120 of 1991)
Provided that such fee shall not be chargeable where the Building Authority is satisfied that a further submission of any plans was occasioned by a bona fide misinterpretation of the provisions of the Ordinance or regulations. 

6A. Documents excluded from application of sections 5, 5A and 6 of Electronic Transactions Ordinance
(1) A document prescribed in paragraph (2) is specified for the purposes of—
(a) item 14 of Schedule 3 to the Electronic Transactions Ordinance (Cap. 553);
(b) items 9 and 10 of Schedule 1 to the Electronic Transactions (Exclusion) Order (Cap. 553 sub. leg. B); and
(c) item 5 of Schedule 2 to that Order.
(2) The following documents are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (1)—
(a) a document prescribed by regulation 8(1)(a), (b), (ba), (c), (f), (g), (h), (j), (k) or (m) or 9;
(b) a document prescribed by regulation 8(1)(bb), (bc), (d), (e), (i) or (l), (3) or (4) (only if the document is submitted to the Building Authority for approval of any building works consisting of repairs, alterations or additions to a building);
(c) a document by which an application under regulation 33(1) is made (only if the application relates to a document mentioned in subparagraph (a) or (b)). (L.N. 222 of 2021)
Notes without legislative effect— 1. This regulation specifies certain documents in relation to which the application of sections 5, 5A and 6 of the Electronic Transactions Ordinance (Cap. 553) (ETO

### Building (Administration) Regulations 《建築物(管理)規例》

7. Completion of notices, etc. and signature thereon
Every notice, form, certificate or other document prescribed or specified for the purposes of the Ordinance and regulations shall be clearly and correctly completed to supply the information required therein and shall be duly signed.
(L.N. 347 of 1993)

### Building (Administration) Regulations 《建築物(管理)規例》

9. Prescribed plans in respect of street works
The plans set out hereunder are prescribed, for the purposes of the Ordinance and regulations, in respect of street works—
(a) a key plan showing the site of the private street or access road;
(b) a layout plan;
(c) longitudinal sections, both vertical and horizontal;
(d) cross sections; (L.N. 438 of 1990)
(e) typical road sections; and (L.N. 438 of 1990)
(f) in respect of any foundation and structural works for a street, a foundation plan showing the size the position of foundations together with a full report of the site investigation work undertaken and details of any grouting work to the ground proposed to be carried out and plans showing structural details together with one set of calculations for the structural works. (L.N. 438 of 1990)

10. Power of Building Authority to require additional plans, etc.
The Building Authority may, where he considers it necessary, require additional plans, enlarged details, other documents and information regarding the supply of water, specifications of and the use of any special materials, or such other particulars as he may consider necessary.

11. Submission of plans and related documents
(1) A plan or a related document that is submitted in hard copy form to the Building Authority for approval must be submitted in duplicate.
(2) If a plan or a related document is submitted (whether or not in hard copy form) to the Building Authority for approval, the Building Authority may require the submission of any additional copies of it in hard copy form that the Building Authority considers necessary.
(3) In this regulation—

related document (相關文件) means—
(a) all details of ground treatment work proposed in connection with a plan; or
(b) a site investigation report in connection with a plan.

(L.N. 222 of 2021)

11A. Foundation plan to be submitted with site formation plan
In respect of building works in area number 1 of the scheduled areas, the foundation plan prescribed in regulation 8(1)(d) shall be submitted to the Building Authority for his approval with the site formation plan prescribed in regulation 8(1)(bb).
(L.N. 233 of 1982; 52 of 1990 s. 11)