The work was carried out by a Chinese contractor, for a building owner who was a blacksmith, and was completed about the middle of February 1901. In the case of new buildings, a certificate must be issued before they can be occupied, but there is no such requirement in the case of buildings which have merely been altered or added to, provided the extent of such operations is not so great as to bring them within the definition of "new buildings" as contained in the Ordinance.
Hence, no certificate was required in the case of the houses now under consideration.
The ground floor of No. 1232 was occupied by a blacksmith who carried out his business there, and No. 1234 by a building contractor who stored a quantity of timber in the cockloft or intermediate floor upon the upper floors of both walls. The buildings were used as dwellings.
The collapse recurred on the night of the 14th August 1901, at about 10:45, an hour at which most of the occupants would be indoors, and the disaster was aggravated by an outbreak of fire at No. 1232.
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was reordered and rewritten to:Sec 53 of Ordinance 72 as amended by Ordinance 25/1891
and the final output isThe work was carried out by a Chinese contractor, for a building owner who was a blacksmith, and was completed about the middle of February 1901. In the case of new buildings, a certificate must be issued before they can be occupied, but there is no such requirement in the case of buildings which have merely been altered or added to, provided the extent of such operations is not so great as to bring them within the definition of "new buildings" as contained in the Ordinance.
Hence, no certificate was required in the case of the houses now under consideration.
The ground floor of No. 1232 was occupied by a blacksmith who carried out his business there, and No. 1234 by a building contractor who stored a quantity of timber in the cockloft or intermediate floor upon the upper floors of both walls. The buildings were used as dwellings.
The collapse recurred on the night of the 14th August 1901, at about 10:45, an hour at which most of the occupants would be indoors, and the disaster was aggravated by an outbreak of fire at No. 1232.
Sec 53 of Ordinance 72 as amended by Ordinance 25/1891