b. Drainage, Sanitation and Sanitary Plumbing By-Laws Chairman – A Sekarajasekaran c. Private Street By-Laws Chairman – A S
Bhatt The Co-ordinating Committee was responsible for drafting the main enabling legislation as well as co = ordinating the work of the three Technical Sub-Committees. The UBBL Sub-Committee’ s composition
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Chairman – Kington Loo
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One architect and one engineer from Ministry of works, Post and Telcommunication – Yap Pow Veng & Kok Tat Cheong
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Two representatives from Federation of Malaya Society of Architects( FMSA) – Hisham Albakri & Tham Chan Wah
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One structural engineer from ACEM – Y S Lau & Ganendra
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One mechanical engineer from ACEM – Yeo See Wang
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One sanitary engineer from ACEM – Chong Koon Kee
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One electrical engineer from ACEM – Lye Fah Yew
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One electrical engineer from National Electricity Board( NEB)
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One representative of Municipal Architect, Kuala Lumpur Municipal – Tan Chor Eng
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One representative from State Development Corporation, Selangor – A S Bhatt
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One representative from Town Planning Institute( Malaysia Branch) – Chung Weng Foo
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One representative from Fire Bridge Kuala Lumpur – P. Gloz, Chief Inspector of Fire Services( CIFS)
MARCH 1973 Proposed Street, Drainage and Building Bill was published for general information and public comment.
APRIL 1973 Uniform Building By-Laws published for general information of and comments from the public. Resulting from the Bill, a total of 19 written submissions were received. These were all considered carefully by the working group of the Uniform Building Regulations Sub-Committee.
JUNE 13, 1974 Street, Drainage and Building Act, 1974 – Act 133 gazetted. This Act empowering the State Authority to make bylaws for all aspects of buildings, streetworks and drainage works was the first significant step taken. All that remained to be done by the legislators was the speedy implementation of the three corresponding sets of supporting by-laws, the drafts of which had already been published on April 5, 1973.
SEP 11, 1974 Report of the UBR Sub- Committee submitted to the Co-ordinating Committee. The Report considered the 19 written submissions and emphasised the need for adequate personnel to implement the UBBL and recommended that the UBBL be reviewed as frequently as possible.
JUN 23, 1975 Kuala Lumpur Municipal( Building)( Amendment) By-Laws, 1975 gazetted. These were based on the draft of the UBBL by the Ministry’ s UBBL Technical Committee but incorporated various amendments as well as errors that the Working Group had already identified. However, practitioners soon discovered to their dismay as well as inconvenience that these amendments and errors in the KL By-Laws were a result of referring to an earlier draft of the UBBL. In addition, a number of new provisions had been incorporated. This resulted in many contradictory provisions and therefore were impossible to comply with, while others had far-reaching consequences.
OCT 1976 TO OCT 1977 PAM UBBL Standing Committee reviewed the KLM( Building)( Amendment) By-Laws 1975. The Committee had 48 meetings with 31 members from the parties of Authorities, Architects, Consulting Engineers and Specialist Contractors.
JUNE 1, 1978 PAM’ s Final Draft of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal( Building)( Amendment) By- Laws 1978 was published. This was expected to eventually be one of the three Uniform By- Laws under the Street, Drainage and Building Act, 1974.
JULY 18, 1979 Pink colour cover of the“ Uniform Building By-Laws 1976” published by the Government Printer. The unfortunate printing of this outdated and erroneous document was in response to the increasing demands by various local authorities for the“ Uniform Building By-Laws”, the draft of which had already been published earlier in April 1973.
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