Window..
Open space
"of and 13 of 1884
(New)
Computation of depth of building.
Ord. 157 of 1885. 4.6 Basements, collars, &c.
(a) All parts underground (as new)
Penalty.
Ord. 12 of 1891. 5. 2. Water-closets and urinals.
Ord. 24 of 1887. 65 Privies in factories or other industrial establishments.
ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
Public Health.
Houses exceeding 40 feet but not exceeding 50 feet in depth: a lane not less than 8 feet wide. Houses exceeding 50 feet but not exceeding 60 feet in depth: a lane not less than 11 feet wide. Houses exceeding 60 feet in depth: a lane not less than 13 feet wide.
(d.) The buildings must be provided on every floor with a window of at least ten square feet superficial area opening into such lane. The area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by section 69 of this Ordinance.
(e) In computing the depth of a domestic building for the purposes of this section, the depth of the kitchen shall be included in the computation of such depth in every case, except when such kitchen is separated from the principal room or rooms of such building by an open backyard of at least six feet in depth extending the entire width of the back of such building and unobstructed except by a bridge or covered way on each floor not exceeding the width specified in sub-section (b).
Basements and Cellars. On and after the 16th day of Sept. 1895. - It shall not be lawful, without the written permission of the Board, to live in, occupy or use, or to let or sublet, or to suffer or permit to be used for habitation or for occupation as a shop, any kitchen, out-house, cellar, vault, underground room, basement, or room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil.
(2.) Any person contravening any provision of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Water-closets and Latrines.
58. No person shall construct, except in a hospital, any water-closet or urinal having any communication with any public sewer or private drain, without the permission of the Board, and any existing water-closets or urinals so communicating shall be removed by the owner upon his being required by the Board to effect such removal.
59. Every factory, refinery, distillery, godown, or other industrial establishment whatsoever, employing a number of persons, shall be provided by the owner thereof with proper privy accommodation on the premises, to the satisfaction of the Board.
ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
Public Health.
60. No public latrine shall be erected until the previous sanction of the Board in writing has been obtained.
The Board shall not incur any legal liability in respect of having granted such sanction, nor shall such sanction protect the owner of any public latrine from any liability to an injunction or other legal proceedings should the latrine be at any time so conducted as to become a nuisance, or its erection be contrary to agreement or be otherwise wrongful.
61. When, in the opinion of the Board, additional public latrine accommodation is required in any locality, the Board may apply in writing through its secretary to the Governor, through the Colonial Secretary, specifying the site (upon Crown land) upon which it desires the erection of a public latrine, and the accommodation to be provided by such latrine.
62. If such application shall be approved of by the Governor, a notification shall be published, in English and Chinese, in three successive numbers of the Gazette, specifying the site and that the Government proposes to erect thereon a public latrine.
63. If any owner or occupier of property in the immediate vicinity of such site objects to such erection, such objection must be sent in writing to the Colonial Secretary so as to reach his office not later than one week after the publication of the last of such notifications.
Such objection must state the reasons and specify the property with regard to the ownership or occupation of which such objection is made and the interest therein of the objector.
64. If such objection is so duly made and is not withdrawn, the Government shall not be entitled to claim the annuity conferred by section 66 of this Ordinance, unless a resolution of the Legislative Council is passed approving of the site and the erection thereon of such latrine.
65. Where such resolution as mentioned in the preceding section has been passed or where no objection has been so duly made or has been withdrawn, no injunction shall be granted against the erection, continuance or use of such latrine, nor shall any suit be brought for damages or compensation in respect of such erection, continuance or use.
66. The immunity with regard to injunctions and suits conferred by section 65 of this Ordinance is hereby extended to all the Government public latrines existing at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance, as fully as if they had been erected under this Ordinance.
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