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in the approval of the design, construction and situation of
every exceptional building. The reference to situation is
meant, for instance, to give the Building Authority power to
refuse to allow a highly inflammable building to be erected in
dangerous proximity to other buildings.
18. Section 8 of this Ordinane enacts
ts a new section 98
which gives the Governor in Council power to make regulations
governing the design, construction and situation of exceptional
buildings generally. The present intention is that under this
power the London County Council Reinforced Concrete Regulations
will be introduced here with the necessary modifications, so
scon as time can be found to adapt them throughout indėtail.
Until that is done the Building Authority proposes to use his
discretion under the new section 97 in accordance with the
London County Council Regulations, 30 far as possible.
19.
There was nodefinition of the meaning of the word
"re-erection" in section 180 of the principal Ordinance, but
it has always been assumed that when a domestic building i
altered so as to make the resulting structure a new building
within the meaning of paragraph (39) of section 6 of the Ordi-
nance the domestic building in question is to be deemed to have
been re-erected. This is expressly provided in the new sub-
section added by section 10 of this Ordinance. That sub-section
also provides that re-erection shall include every alteration
which makes the resulting building or any part thereof an ex-
ceptional building.
20.
The third object of this Ordinance is to make some
minor amendments relating to water closets and water-flushed
urinals. This subject is dealt with in section 9.
21.