Hong Kong Ordinances

BUILDINGS ORDINANCE - SECT 8B

Application for registration as a contractor

(Past version on 01/04/1998).
(Past version on 07/11/1997).

(1) An applicant for registration as a general building contractor or a
specialist contractor is required to apply to the Building Authority in the
specified form.

(2) An applicant must satisfy the Building Authority on-

   (a)  if it is a corporation, the adequacy of its management structure;

   (b)  the appropriate experience and qualifications of his personnel;

   (c)  his ability to have access to plant and resources;

   (d)  the ability of the person appointed by the applicant to act for the
        applicant for the purposes of this Ordinance to understand building 
        works and street works through relevant experience and a general
        knowledge of the basic statutory requirements.

(3) An applicant for registration as a specialist contractor must satisfy the
Building Authority that he has the necessary experience and, where
appropriate, professional and academic qualifications, to undertake work in
the specialist category.

(4) (Repealed 15 of 2004 s. 10)

(5) An applicant is to-

   (a)  (Repealed 15 of 2004 s. 10)

   (b)  pay the prescribed fee for the application.

(6) The Building Authority is to refer an application to the relevant
Contractors Registration Committee. (Amended 15 of 2004 s. 10)

(7) The Building Authority, within 3 months of the date of the meeting of the
relevant Contractors Registration Committee at which the application is
considered, is required to- (Amended 15 of 2004 s. 10)

   (a)  on payment by the applicant of the prescribed fee for registering the
        applicant's name, publish it in the Gazette, enter it in the
        appropriate register and issue a certificate of registration; or

   (b)  inform the applicant that his application has been deferred for a
        period not exceeding 6 months; or

   (c)  refuse the application.

(8) The Building Authority is to have regard to the qualifications, competence
and experience of-

   (a)  the applicant in considering an application for inclusion in the
        register of general building contractors or the register of specialist
        contractors;

   (b)  the directors, other officers and any person appointed by the
        applicant to act for it for the purposes of this Ordinance if the
        applicant is a body corporate, and may require the applicant to submit
        relevant information and documentary evidence to support a claim to
        qualifications, competence or experience.

(9) The Building Authority may take into account relevant experience in Hong
Kong as a qualification in considering an application for inclusion in the
register of general building contractors.

(10) The Building Authority must not include the name of an applicant in the
register of general building contractors or the register of specialist
contractors unless the relevant Contractors Registration  Committee recommends
him. (Amended 15 of 2004 s. 10)

(11) A contractor's name may be included in both the register of general
building contractors and the register of specialist contractors and in
different sub-registers of specialist contractors if he has the relevant
qualifications.

(12) A registration under this section expires, unless the contractor's name
is removed from the relevant register by order of a disciplinary board, on the
expiry of 3 years beginning on the date of inclusion of his name in the
register. (Added 15 of 2004 s. 10) (Added 54 of 1996 s. 9)