Buildings.
9. Any such verandah or balcony shall be constructed of iron, stone, brick or other incombustible material approved by the Building Authority, except that the piers of every verandah shall on the ground floor of any building be made of cut stone worked straight, the exposed faces of which shall be extra fine punched or of other incombustible material approved by the Building Authority.
10. All bressummers and lintels, in connexion with any such verandah or balcony, shall be constructed of iron or other incombustible material approved by the Building Authority.
11. The roof and floors of any such verandah or balcony shall be provided, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority, with gutters laid to a proper fall and with down-pipes to carry off water.
12. In the case of balconies any bracket, which is not built into any party or cross wall or main wall other than the wall from which it projects, shall have its top member extended for a length of at least three feet underneath the floor joists, or be otherwise anchored down in a manner satisfactory to the Building Authority.
13. The foot-path or roadway underneath any verandah or balcony over unleased Crown land or projecting beyond any such verandah or balcony out to the kerb-stone shall be paved with fine cement-concrete at least 4 inches thick, or finely dressed granite stones, not more than 18 inches square, closely jointed and laid on a bed of lime-concrete, or with such other materials as may be approved by the Building Authority, by the owner for the time being of the property from which such verandah or balcony projects, who shall maintain the same in good order, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority: Provided that wherever the Building Authority may consider it expedient to do so he may lay or repair any such foot-path or roadway at the expense of the owner, as aforesaid, who shall pay into the Treasury, within seven days of the date of notice, the amount certified by the Building Authority as being due in respect of the work done, and in default of such payment the Building Authority may recover such amount by an action in the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction.
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