Comments on: Meeting With YB Jenice Lee http://www.petertan.com/blog/2008/04/08/meeting-with-yb-jenice-lee/ Living One Day At A Time Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:21:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: moo_t http://www.petertan.com/blog/2008/04/08/meeting-with-yb-jenice-lee/#comment-21251 moo_t Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:39:20 +0000 http://www.petertan.com/blog/?p=1041#comment-21251 Isn't it disabilities compliance for building are a part of the law. A penalties will follow the law if the contractor failed to comply it. My friend in UK that work as web developer told me that, the UK government are serious in enforcing the disabilities compliance, even for Website. E.g. website host in UK can be sued and fined heavily if they failed to comply with the code. So for the ramp issues, it seems contractor know NOTHING about the penalties, thus the "tidak apa" altitude. Perhaps it is time to teach them some lessons. <strong>Peter: The said law is the Uniform Building By-Law 34A. It is seldom enforced although it has been around for more than fifteen years. I have not heard of developers being fined for non-compliance. The irony is that the local authorities who are responsible for enforcing this law are themselves guilty of non-compliance. Should I initiate a test case by suing one of the local governments, the ministry concerned and a guilty developer?</strong> Isn’t it disabilities compliance for building are a part of the law. A penalties will follow the law if the contractor failed to comply it.

My friend in UK that work as web developer told me that, the UK government are serious in enforcing the disabilities compliance, even for Website. E.g. website host in UK can be sued and fined heavily if they failed to comply with the code.

So for the ramp issues, it seems contractor know NOTHING about the penalties, thus the “tidak apa” altitude. Perhaps it is time to teach them some lessons.

Peter:
The said law is the Uniform Building By-Law 34A. It is seldom enforced although it has been around for more than fifteen years. I have not heard of developers being fined for non-compliance. The irony is that the local authorities who are responsible for enforcing this law are themselves guilty of non-compliance. Should I initiate a test case by suing one of the local governments, the ministry concerned and a guilty developer?

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