Site, Building and Structure

1. The Ontario Building Code is a regulation part of the Building Code Act 1992. The 2012 Ontario Building Code Compendium is two volumes- including Supplementary Standards referenced by the Code and additional explanatory material. For the authoritative text of the Building Code regulation, see the official volumes. The 2012 Building Code was enacted by Ontario Regulation 332/12 which came into force on January 1 2014. 2. The copy of the Building Code that most people have is the Compendium Edition.

In order to ensure the quality of construction work and public safety, the Building Act provides for the adoption of a Construction Code and a Safety Code governing buildings, facilities intended for use by the public, electrical, plumbing and pressure installations, petroleum equipment installations, and installations intended to use, store or distribute gas. Whereas the Construction Code applies to plan and specifications designers (architects, engineers, technologists) and contractors, the Safety Code is intended for owners of buildings, facilities and installations.

2(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act applies to the
design, construction and demolition of buildings in the
Province.
2(1) Sous réserve du paragraphe (2), la présente loi s’applique
à la conception, à la construction et à la démolition
de bâtiments dans la province.
2(2) This Act or the regulations under this Act, or a provision
of this Act or the regulations do not apply to any
building or class of building exempted by the regulations
from the application of this Act or the regulations under

(1) These regulations apply to the administration and enforcement of the Building Code Act in the design, construction, erection, placement and occupancy of new buildings, and the alteration, reconstruction, demolition, removal, relocation, occupancy and change of occupancy classification of existing buildings and to the work necessary to correct unsafe conditions in existing buildings reported to the authority having jurisdiction or observed during an inspection.

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make such regulations as
he considers desirable to regulate and control the use of buildings, to
regulate and control the use of materials, equipment and appliances in the
construction of buildings, and set standards of construction in the
erection of buildings within the Province of Prince Edward Island and
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may make
regulations: (c) declare a specified edition or printing of the National Building

1.1.1 — This code provides minimum requirements for design and construction of structural concrete elements of any structure erected under requirements of the legally adopted general building code of which this code forms a part. In areas without a legally adopted building code, this code defines minimum acceptable standards of design and construction practice.

The National Fire Code of Canada 2015 (NFC), published by NRC and developed by the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes, sets out the technical provisions regulating activities related to the construction, use or demolition of buildings and facilities, the condition of specific elements of buildings and facilities, and the design or construction of specific elements of facilities related to certain hazards as well as the protection measures for the current or intended use of buildings.