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[Subsidiary]
L.N. 294/76.
Height of storeys. L.N. 294/76.
Space about domestic buildings. G.N.A. 97/62. L.N. 82/63. L.N. 394/76. Second Schedule.
L.N. 33/66.
L.N. 33/66.
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Building (Planning) Regulations
[1984 Ed.
(4) For the purposes of regulations 19, 20, 21 and 22, the Building Authority may treat as a non-domestic building a composite building in which the only domestic part of the building is a place of residence, not having more than 50 m2 of usable floor space, for a caretaker or other person employed in connexion with the building or a service provided therefor or a residence comprising the top storey of the building, or both.
24. (1) Every room used or intended to be used for the purpose of an office or for habitation in any building shall have a height of
(a) not less than 2.75 m measured from floor to ceiling;
(b) in the case of detached or semi-detached buildings not less than 2.5 m measured as aforesaid:
Provided that there shall be not less than 2.3 m measured from the floor to the underside of any beam.
(2) In any such room having a sloping ceiling, the height shall be measured to the mean height of such ceiling above floor level:
Provided that no portion of any room shall have a height of less than 2 m.
Kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, water-closets and latrines forming part of any building may be erected with a height of 2.5 m measured as described in paragraphs (1) and (2).
25. (1) (a) Every domestic building on a class A or B site or on a class C site shall have within the site an open space at the rear, or partly at the rear and partly at the side, at a level of not less than 150 mm below the floor of the lowermost storey in accordance with the Second Schedule:
Provided that where the Building Authority considers it necessary for proper and equitable development or redevelopment of an adjacent site, he may require the provision of more open space than that specified in the Second Schedule.
(b) The open space provided pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) shall be such that no part of the building which bounds on such open space at any level shall be within 1.5 m, measured horizontally, of a line drawn vertically from a point in the boundary of the open space immediately opposite thereto.
(2) No part of any domestic building shall be erected within 1.5 m of the rear boundary of the site. The open space so provided shall be counted as part of the open space required under this regulation.
(3) No existing domestic building which has an open space of equal or less area than that required by this regulation shall be altered in such manner as to reduce the existing amount of open space.