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I am sorry to say that I don’t know anything about Ordinance 70.
However, sometimes when you make a major change to something that was once OK under an old Code but would not be acceptable if the same thing was built under the new Code then, any changes must reflect the standards of the new Code rather than the standards of the old Code.
Does that make sense?
A tiler would have a better idea about this, I would think (?)
In NSW, the Building Code of Australia (BCA) has replaced Ordinance 70 as the primary building code.
This document may help:
If you can’t tile over the existing tiles then perhaps this type of thing may suit your purposes if you don’t want your shower reno to involve waterproofing (i.e. if you don’t want to have the shower reno classified as a Major Renovation rather than a Minor Renovation):