Examples of National Building Act in a sentence
Following the restoration of democracy in 1986, coalitions of women’s organizations and ‘femocrats’ ensured that gender equality was included in the new constitution, and advocated successfully for the Women in Development and National Building Act (RA 7192) passed in 1992.
Section 5(4) of Republic Act No. 7192 (Women in Development and National Building Act) ensures that married women have the same rights as married men to apply for a passport, as well as secure visa and other travel documents, without the consent of their spouse.
For legal areas which properly belong to the Jamaica National Building Act and or Regulations it refers users to these documents.
The legal requirements of the IFGC have been scrutinized to separate issues which under Jamaican jurisprudence belong to the New National Building Act and Regulations instead of the code.
He reasoned that the local authority was obliged to refuse the approval of the plans by virtue of section 7 of the National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act 103/1977 ("The National Building Act"), which prohibits a local authority from approving plans if it is satisfied that the proposed building will, inter alia "probably or in fact derogate from the value of adjoining or neighbouring properties."The judge rejected the applicant's argument.
In some cases land owners have developed accommodation that resulted in contravention with the National Building Act and Building Regulations, which includes contravention with the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act and the Municipal SLUMA By-Law.
In this regard, the Government in January 2019 promulgated the 2018 National Building Act which is a major step toward implementing an effective disaster risk strategy, protecting human lives, building 34 Project Paper for “Promoting Community-Based Climate Resilience in the Fisheries Sector Project” (World Bank, 2018) climate resilient infrastructure and preserving the value of physical assets and investments.
He held that section 7 of the National Building Act must be interpreted restrictively to prevent the section from having the effect of prohibiting the erection of a building purely because it would cause the obstruction of the view from a neighbouring property.
This paper will summarize the policies implemented by the New Zealand Government in response to building industry problems associated with poor quality and leaking buildings that have beset New Zealand since the introduction of the first National Building Act in 1991.
Building control could indicate, for example, that households don’t need permission to build a shelter (where shelter is defined as a structure and unit of accommodation intended for human occupation, constructed of any material whatsoever, even though such structure or material may not comply with the standards or requirement for durability intended by the National Building Act, or any other definition as approved by a Municipality).