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LAWS
OF
MALAYSIA UNIFORM BUILDING
BY-LAWS 1984
[G. N. 5178/85]
(AS AT 10™ JULY 2006)
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20,
UNIFORM BUILDING BY-LAWS 1984
ARRANGEMENT OF BY-LAWS
Partl
PRELIMINARY
Citation,
Interpretation,
Part Il
SUBMISSION OF PLANS FOR APPROVAL
Submission of plans for approval.
Return of plan.
Supervision of work
Plans to be signed.
Withdrawal or change of qualified person,
Plans to be deposited in triplicate,
Scale of plans.
Plans required
Exemption from by-law 10,
Sketch plans for approval in principle.
Special permission to commence building operations
Plans of alterations,
Specifications,
Details and calculations of structural plans
Power of local authority to reject structural plans and calculations,
Permits
Temporary permits,
Advertisement hoardings
Materials not to be deposited in a street without permission, By-law
22.
23.
39.
40.
4L.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
Notice of commencement or resumption of building operations,
Notice of completion of setting out.
Notice of completion of excavation for foundation.
Certificate of fitness for occupation.
Certificate of completion and compliance.
‘Temporary certificate of fitness for occupation.
Partial certificate of fitness for occupation.
Offence under the Act.
Fees for consideration of plans and for permits.
Part Ill
SPACE, LIGHT AND VENTILATION
Open spaces to be provided.
Open spaces not to be altered or roofed.
Space about buildings abutting a street and a backlane.
Space about buildings on lots abutting a street and having no
backlane.
Space about detached buildings.
Access from a street.
Splayed corners
Projections over the street and over the building line.
Width of footway.
Natural lighting and ventilation.
Air-wells.
Mechanicals ventilation and air-conditioning.
Minimum area of rooms in residential buildings.
Minimum dimensions of latrines, water-closets and bathrooms.
Height of rooms in residential buildings, shophouses, schools, etc,
Height of rooms in places of public resort.
Heights of rooms in other buildings.
Projections over a verandah-way. By-law
48.
49.
60.
62.
PARTIV
TEMPORARY WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH
BUILDING OPERATIONS
Commencement of building operation
Responsibility of persons granted temporary permits.
Cancellation of temporary permit
Vehicular access to site
Rising mains to be installed progressively
PART V
STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS
Building materials.
General requirements of loading,
Dead and imposed loads,
Dead loads calculated from weights of materials used,
Weight of partitions.
Contents of tanks and other receptacles.
Imposed floor loads.
Mechanical stacking.
. skylights and similar structures,
Imposed loads on ceiling
Reduction in total imposed floor loads
Imposed roof loads.
Curved roofs.
Roof coverings.
Internal suspended loads on primary structural members,
Amount of suspended load.
Dynamic loading.
Crane gantry girders.
Parapets and balustrades.
Vehicle barriers for car parks.
Basement walls and floors. By-law
73.
14.
75.
76.
n.
78.
79.
80.
81
82.
83.
84,
85,
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.
97.
98.
Foundations.
Foundations of buildings not exceeding four storeys.
Reinforced concrete foundations.
Strip foundations
Brick footings.
Foundations below invert of drains,
Foundation under external and party walls.
‘Structure above founda
ions.
Part VI
CONSTRUCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Building site.
Drainage of subsoil
Protection against soil erosion, ete.
Prevention of dampness,
Nominal thickness of walls.
Party walls.
Openings in party walls.
Recesses.
Chases.
Underpinning.
Coping, ete. to be impervious.
Projections in brickwork
Measurement of the length of a wall.
Use of 100 millimetre brickwork and concrete blocks in load-
bearing walls
External panel walls.
Non load bearing partition.
‘Timbers built into party walls.
Fences and boundary walls.
Cooking facilities in residential buildings.
4 By-law
100.
101
102
103,
104.
105,
106.
107.
108.
109.
110.
ria
Cooking
acilities in quarters,
Boilers, fireplaces, forges and incinerators in factories
Combustible materials adjoining smoke flues.
Timber floors.
Bearing for joists.
Space below floors to be ventilated
Dimensions of staircases.
Handrails.
Maximum flights.
Winders,
No obstruction in staircases.
Lighting and ventilation of staircases,
Enclosure of staircases in a shop.
Use of timber staircases.
Timber roofs.
Roofs coverings and drainage
Accessible flat roofs, balconies, ete
Access to roof space.
Refuse chutes and alternate means for disposal of refuse.
Change of use of building
Design and construction of refuse chutes.
Requirements for refuse
ceptacle chambers.
Access to refuse receptacle chambers.
Pipes and service ducts
Lifts.
Swimming pools.
Steps and footway
Openings into swimming pool.
Depth of water
Location of diving boards. By-law
130.
131
132.
133
134,
135.
136,
137,
138,
139,
140,
141
142,
143,
144,
145,
146,
147.
148,
Changing rooms.
Foot-bath and shower.
Private, residential swimming pools.
Part VIL
FIRE REQUIREMENTS
Interpretation.
Designation of purpose groups.
Rules of measurement.
Provision of compartment walls and compartment floors.
Floor in building exceeding 30 metres in height to be constructed
as compartment floor.
Other walls and floors to be constructed as compartment walls
‘or compartment floors.
Separation of fire risk areas.
Fire appliance access.
Separating walls,
External walls,
Beam or column.
Cladding on external wall.
Reference to Sixth Schedule.
Relevant boundary
Construction of separating wall.
Special requirements as to compartment walls and compartment
floors.
Horizontal and vertical barriers at the external walls,
Protected shafts.
Ventilation to lift shafts.
Openings in lift shafts.
‘Smoke detectors for lift lobbies.
Emergency mode of operation in the event of mains power failure.
Fire mode of operation. By-law
156.
Protected shafts as ventilating duct,
Protected shafts consisting of staircase.
Stages in places of assembly,
Open sta
Fire precaution in air-conditioning systems
Fire-stopping.
Fire doors in compartment walls and separating walls,
Half hour and one hour doors.
Door closers for fire doors,
Measurement of travel distance to exists.
Exists to be accessible at all times,
Storey exits,
Staircases
Exit route.
Egress through unenclosed openings.
Horizontal exists.
Emergency exit signs.
Exit doors,
Arrangement of storey exits.
Calculation of occupant load.
Computing storey exit widths,
Computing number of staircases and staircase widths.
Exists for institutional and other places of assembly
Classification of places of assembly
Space standards for calculating occupancy loads
Width of means of egress.
Rate of discharge.
Exit details for places of assembly
Seating.
Gangways in place of assembly. By-law
186,
187.
188,
189.
190.
191
192
193.
194.
195.
196.
197,
198.
199.
200,
201
202.
203.
204,
Exit doors in places of assembly
Notice affixed to door of gate.
Travel distance in places of assembly
Enclosing means of escape in certain buildings,
External staircase.
Openings in adjacent walls not permitted.
Moving walks.
Power operated doors as means of egrees.
Building with single staircase.
Staircases to reach roof level.
Smoke lobbies.
Protected lobbies
Ventilation of staircase enclosures.
Ventilation of staircase enclosures in buildings not exceeding 18
metres.
Ventilation of staircase enclosures in buildings exceeding 18 metres.
Staircase enclosure below ground level
Pressurized system for staircase.
Restriction of spread of flame.
es of walls and
Classification of restriction of flame over sur
ceilings.
Classification of interior finish materials.
Classification of surface of wall or ceiling,
Exceptions relating to ceilings.
Reference to roofs.
Reference to bu
Construction of roofs,
Roofing materials.
Category designation for fire penetration and spread of flame on roof
surfa
Fire resistance,
Additional requirements. By-la
Height of buildings.
Single storey buildings.
Fire resistance of structural member.
Compartment wall separating flats and maisonnette.
Application of these By-laws to floors.
Floor area and cap:
y of buildings and compartments
Test of fire resistance.
Fire resistance for walls.
Fire resistance for floors above ground floor.
Fire resistance for any element of structure.
PART VIII
FIRE ALARMS, FIRE DETECTION, FIRE EXTINGUISHMENT
AND FIRE FIGHTING ACCESS
Detecting and extinguishing fire.
Automatic system for hazardous occupancy
Portable extinguishers,
Sprinkler valves.
Means of access and fire fighting in buildings over 18.3 metres high.
Installation and testing of dry rising system.
Installation and testing of wet rising system.
Wet or dry rising systems for buildings under construction
Foam inlets,
Underground structures and windowless buildings to have foam
inlets,
Fixed installations.
Special hazards,
Fire alarms.
‘Command and control centre.
Voice communication system
Electrical isolating switch.
Special requirements for fire alarm systems.
9 Fire fighting access lobbies.
Fire lifts.
Standards required.
Approval of D.G.E.S
Certification on completion.
Water storage.
Marking on wet riser, etc.
Smoke and heat venting.
Natural draught smoke vent
‘Smoke vents to be adequate to prevent da
smoke
rous accumulation of
‘Smoke vents to be openable by Fire Authority
Emergency power system,
Part IX
MISCELLANEOUS
Buildings to which Parts VII and VIII apply
Power of local authority to extend period, etc.
Buildings exempted.
Mal
ian Standard Specification and Code of Practice to prevail
over British Standard Specification and Code of Practice.
Failure to buildings
First Scuepue
Secon ScHeDULE.
THIRD ScHEDULE
FourtH ScHEDULE.
Firta Scuepute
Suxti SCHEDULE.
SEVENTH SCHEDULE,
Etcuri ScHEDULE.
Nira ScHEDULE
‘Tent SCHEDULE, UNIFORM BUILDING BY-LAWS 1984
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 133 of the Street, Draina,
and Building Act 1974, the Minister/State Authority makes the following
by-laws:
PARTI
PRELIMINARY
1. Citation.
‘These By-laws may be cited as the Uniform Building By-laws 1984.
2. Interpretation.
In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Act” means the Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974;
board, wall, bar,
pillar, post, wire, or any combination of these, or any erection of any kind, or
“advertisement hoarding” means any frame, hoardin;
any surface or space used for the display of trade, business or professional
advertisements;
“aggregate” means any material other than cement and water used in the
making of concrete which does not contain additions or admixtures:
“alterations” includes additions and extensio
“approved” means approved by the local authority
‘approved plan” means a plan for a building approved by the local
authority in accordance with these By-laws;
architect” me:
Jaw relating to the r
to practise or carry on business as an architect
ns any person who is registered as an architect under any
ation of architects and who under that law is allowed
“ASHARE” means the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning E
neers, Inc
ge, platform, oriel window or other similar
nd supported by
“balcony” means any sta
outwards from the wall of a building
structure projecti
brackets or cantilevered;
“base” in relation to a wall or pier means—
(a) the underside of the course immediately above the footings, if any,
or in the case of wall carried by a beam, above the beam; and
(b) in any other case the bottom of such wall or pier;
baseme}
ata level lower than the ground storey
means any storey or storeys of a building which is or are ns, FGN
1046/99)
“building line” means the line prescribed by either the competent
planning authority or the local authority beyond which no part of a building
may project, except as otherwise permitied by these By-laws;
BS” means the latest published edition of the British Standard
Specification;
“BSCP” means the latest published edition of the British Standard Code
of Practice:
“ceiling” means the covering to the underside of floor joists or ceilin;
joists or floor slabs excluding in all cases any supporting beams, and where
no such covering exists means the underside of floor joists or roof cellars
or ties excluding any supporting beams:
“certificate of completion and compliance” means a certificate issued
under by-law 25a;
“column”, in relation to structural steel, timber or reinforced concrete,
means any part of construction which will by its resistance to compression
in the direction of its length and to the bending actions induced by such
compression, support and transmit loading;
“dead load” means that static weight of all walls, partitions, floors, roofs
and finishes, including all other permanent construction;
“depth”, in respect of a building, means the measured distance between
the front line of the building and the back line of the rear main wall which
separates the main building from the open space;
“detached buildi
buildings;
means any building not attached to any other
ngineer” means a person who is registered as a professional engineer
Under any law relating to the registration of engineers and who under the law
is allowed to practise or carry on the business of a professional engineer;
‘external wall” means an outer wall of a building not being a party wall
notwithstanding that it may immediately adjoin a wall of another building
ictory” means any building or part thereof designed, adapted or used
for—
(@) the making of any article or part of any article, commodity or
product; or
(b) the altering, repairing, ormamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing
or the breaking up or demolition of any article, commodity or
product; or
(c) the adapting for sale or assembly of any article, commodity or
product; and
(d) any other building as defined in the Factories and Machinery Act
1967; “fire wall” m
materials having the fire resistance as required under Part VII of these
By-laws and either used or constructed to be used for the separation of
is any wall, not being a party wall or external wall, of
adjoining buildings or the separation of parts of a buildin
as to prevent or reduce the spreading of fire from one building to another
or from one part of a building to another part of that building and includes
a proscenium wall, compartment wall, separating wall and a protecting
structure:
“flat
used wholly or principally for human habitation for a single family, where
the kitchen, lavatory and bathroom or water-closet are contained within
the separate dwelling and that dwelling is contained in a building comprisir
two or more such dwellings joined vertically
means any separate dwelling used or constructed or adapted to be
“lat roof” means any roof having no inclination or having an inclination
of not more than seven and one-half degrees with the horizontal
lood |
el” means such flood level as may be prescribed for any area
by the local authority
“floor” includes any horizontal platform forming the surface of any
storey and any joist, board, timber, stone, concrete, steel or other substance
connected with or forming part of such platform;
L of the structure of
“footing” means the construction whereby the w.
building is transferred from the base structure to the foundations;
“foundation” means a system or arrangement of foundation units such
ft or pile through which the loads from a buildit