The Government is looking at year end as the new deadline for the passage of legislation that will herald an updated legal building code.
The Local Government Ministry earlier announced a March 31 deadline to have the Building bill considered by Parliament.
However, four months on, the bill has not reached Parliament.
The current building code is more than 100-years-old and remains following other failed attempts to have a new code added to the books.
Local Government Minster Noel Arscott says the legislation was not brought to Parliament in March to make way for bills linked to Jamaica’s programme with the International Monetary Fund.
Arscott says the time since then has been spent making needed revisions to the bill, which was only this week sent to the Legislative Committee of Parliament for deliberation.
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