(1) Every person who intends to erect, re-erect or add to, or alter, any building shall get its plan prepared and structural work designed and supervised by an architect or structural engineer or licensed building surveyor as required under rule 15. While submitting the plan the architect or licensed building surveyor or structural engineer shall certify to the effect that the site has been personally inspected while planning the building and/or designing the structural members, as well as he has taken into account the findings of or recommendations of stability analysis as well as soil tests performed as and where necessary under this rule.
(2) In all such cases, the licensed building surveyor, structural engineer or Geo-technical Engineer shall have to be empanelled with the Municipality.
(3) The name, address and license or empanelment number of the person so employed and serial number or registration number in the case of architect shall be stated in the application in respect of such building.
(4) In case of building plans or site plans submitted by the Central Government or the State Government or by organization controlled by the Central or the State Government, if the plans are prepared and submitted under the signature of the Government engineer or Architect, who are employees of the applicant organization, sub-rule (1) of this rule shall not be applicable:
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Provided that the minimum qualification of the Government Engineer or Government Architect will be same as in the case of Architect or Licensed Building Surveyor, Empanelled Structural Engineer or Geo-technical Engineer.