Construction Industry Licensing

L.N. 127 of 2024

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 623)

Construction Industry Licensing

(Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2024

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 11A and 17 of

the Building and Construction Authority Act, the Minister responsible

for the construction industry, after consultation with the Building and

Construction Authority Board, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Construction Industry Citation.

Licensing (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2024 and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Construction S.L. 623.09.

Industry Licensing Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the

"principal regulations".

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, in the definition Amends

"provisional clearance", the words "submitted from the 1st November regulation

the principal

2023 until the 31st May 2024" shall be deleted.

regulations.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulation shall be amended Amends

regulation 3 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) sub-regulation (1) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new sub-regulation

"(1) The exercise of any of the service activities

stipulated in Schedule I shall not be carried out by any

person or entity unless the said person or entity has

acquired a valid licence for the exercise of such service

activity.";

(b) in sub-regulation (2) thereof, the words "by not later

than 31st October 2023" shall be deleted;

(c) in sub-regulation (3) thereof, the words "by not later

than 31st October 2023" shall be deleted; and

(d) in sub-regulation (5) thereof, the words "from the 1st

November 2023 until the 31st May 2024" shall be deleted.

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 6 of the principal Amends

regulations, the words "of five (5) members" shall be substituted by regulation

the principal

the words "of not less than five (5) members and not more than eleven regulations.

(11) members".

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 16 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following new sub-regulation

"(1) The Committee shall decide on an application

submitted in accordance with these regulations within

sixty (60) days from the submission of a valid

application

Provided that in the case of applications

submitted before 31st May 2024, the Committee shall

decide by the 31st December 2024

Provided further that if the Committee

requires additional time, it shall inform the applicant in

writing that the decision shall be delivered within thirty

(30) days from the original date on which the decision

was to be delivered.".

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