THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1889.
30. No platform, superstructure, staging or frame-work of wood, mats, or other inflammable materials shall be erected or fixed temporarily or permanently, over or upon the roof of any building within the City of Victoria or any of the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon. Frames affixed to house-roofs for the purpose of drying clothes shall be made exclusively of light iron-work.
31. The roofs of all buildings including verandahs, shall in all cases rest upon, and abut against, at least nine inches of solid brick-work or stone-work, and in all cases where the walls supporting such roof are of a less thickness than eighteen inches, such walls shall be corbelled out in brick or stone-work immediately below the rafters of the roof.
Wood-Work.
32. No bond timber or wood-plate shall be built into the thickness of any party or external wall.
33. No timber or wood-work shall be placed in any wall or chimney breast nearer than twelve inches from the inside of any flue or chimney-opening, nor under any chimney-opening within eighteen inches from the upper surface of the hearth of such chimney-opening; nor shall any wooden plugs be driven nearer than six inches to the inside of any flue or chimney-opening.
Arches.
34. Every arch under any public or private way used as a thoroughfare shall be formed of brick, stone, or other incombustible materials. If an arch of brick or stone is used, it shall, in cases where its span does not exceed ten feet, be of a least thickness of twelve inches; where its span does not exceed fifteen feet, it shall be of a least thickness of fifteen inches; and where its span exceeds fifteen feet, it shall be of such thickness and built of such materials as may be approved by the Surveyor General. If an arch bridge or platform of iron, concrete, or other incombustible material not being brick or stone is used, it shall be deemed to be an exceptional structure, and shall be constructed in such manner as may be approved by the Surveyor General,
Projections.
35. Every coping, cornice, facia, window dressing, portico, balcony, verandah, and balustrade, and every architectural projection and architectural decoration what- soever, and also the caves or cornices to any overhanging roof, except the cornices and dressings to the window fronts of shops, and except the eaves and cornices to detached or semi-detached dwelling-houses distant at least thirty feet from any other building or from the land of any adjoining owner, shall be of brick, tile, stone, artificial stone, slate, cement, or other incombustible material.
36. The roof of every building, or verandah, shall be so arranged and constructed, and so supplied with eaves- gutters and rain-water pipes, as to prevent the roof waters therefrom from being projected upon, or running over any public foot-path or side-channel.
Encroachments on or over Crown Land.
37. No encroachment shall be made upon or over Crown Land by any verandah or balcony projected from any build- ing, or by any other structure or part thereof whatsoever, (1.) Without the previous consent of the Governor
and
(2.) Until the applicant for leave to make such encroachment shall have previously signed an undertaking in the form contained in Schedules B. or C. and
(3.) Unless subject to such Rules and Regulations as may be made by the Governor in Council under this Ordinance, and
(4.) Unless the building from which such verandah or other structure is intended to project, shall comply in all respects with every provision of this Ordinance and of Ordinance 24 of 1887 and of Bye-Laws made thereunder, and
(5.) Unless the street, lane, or alley into which such verandah is intended to project is twenty or over twenty feet in width from house-wall to house- wall.
Kitchens and Cook-Houses.
38. Every dwelling-house shall be provided with a ,kitchen or cook-house, and in respect of tenement-houses of more than one story, each story shall be provided with a separate kitchen or cook-house.
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