(1) Except for the full purpose of a full-scale load test, no person shall, either during construction or after completion thereof, subject a building, or any portion thereof, to a superimposed load greater than-

a) 200 kilograms over any area of one square meter; or

b) the load specified in the approved drawings of the building or portion thereof as being the load for which the building or portion is designed;

unless the building has been shown, by test conducted by or on behalf of the local authority, to be capable of bearing a greater load

(2) Where no approved drawings are available for an existing building concerned will safely sustain to be estimated by a person who, in the opinion of the local authority, is competent to do so.

(3) Any estimate of the load-bearing capacity of a building given in terms of subsection(2) shall be filled with, and retained by, the local authority, and, thereafter, no person shall cause or permit the loading of that building or any part thereof to exceed the capacity determined in such estimate.

(4) Where the local authority considers that there is a risk of overloading any portion of a building whose floors are designed to withstand an imposed load exceeding 300 kilograms per square meter, the local authority may require the owner or occupier of the building, in a conspicuous position, a notice, in the form of an embossed or stamped metal or other durable plate clearly stating-

a) the superimposed loading for which the floor is designed; or

b) if the designs are not available, the safe floor-loading estimated and recorded in terms of subsections (2) and (3).

(5) If a floor or storey designed to withstand an imposed load exceeding 300 kilograms per square meter is subdivided into portions, each designed for a different superimposed loading, the local authority may require notices to be exhibited in each portion of the subdivided floor or storey, in the manner provided for in subsection(4).

(6) In the case of a garage intended to accommodate vehicles not exceeding two thousand two hundred and fifty kilogram gross, the owner of the building shall exhibit, in addition to any notice required in terms of subsection (4), a similarly made and displayed notice, clearly stating the maximum permissible gross mass of vehicles using the garage.