Section 5

Any building which immediately before the commencement of this Act was used for the housing of employees or as a nursery or as a community hall by an employer and was erected or converted in accordance with the requirements of any written law in force at the time of its erection or conversion may continue to be used by such employer:

Provided that such building be converted to comply with the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder.

Notwithstanding the provision in subsection (2), the Director

General, upon application by an employer, may permit, subject to any condition as he may impose, such building to continue to be used without conversion for such period as he deems fit.

Pursuant to any investigation carried out on any place of employment, where the Director General is satisfied that any building which immediately before or after the commencement of this Act was used for the housing of employees or their dependants or as a nursery or as a community hall does not comply with the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder, the

Director General may issue to the employer concerned a notice, of not less than three months, of his intention to order demolition and replacement, alteration, repair or making good any deficiency or defect thereof.

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Where, upon the expiry of the aforesaid notice period, the employer fails to take such action as is required to the satisfaction of the Director General, the Director General may issue to the employer concerned an order in writing requiring the employer to demolish and replace, alter or repair such building or to make good any deficiency or defect thereof within six months of the order and subject to such conditions as the Director General may specify in the order; and any such order may include a directive that no employee or his dependants shall be permitted to occupy any such building pending such demolition and replacement, alteration or repair, or the making good of any defect or deficiency thereof, or until the requirements of the order have been complied with:

Provided that where an appeal has been made under section 30

in respect of the order issued under this subsection, then such order shall be suspended pending the determination of the appeal.

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