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Height of buildings on
corner sites.
Height of buildings on sites abutting on more than one street although not
on corner
sites.
Height of buildings not to be regu-
lated by width of Scavenging lanes, etc.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, s. 189,
and substitu-
tion of new
section.
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erected or re-erected or raised to a height exceeding such height as the Building Authority may authorise, but in the case of a building on land abutting upon a street the Building Authority shall have no power to require such building to be of a less beight than that specified in such of the foregoing paragraphs as would apply if such building bad been so arranged as to abut upon such street
;
(e) by re-numbering paragraph (5) as paragraph
(6);
(f) by inserting after the word “ storey at the end of the paragraph so renumbered as para- graph (6) the words-
"For the purposes of this paragraph only, the term "storey "shall include any space having a clear height of more than five feet ";
(g) by inserting after the paragraph so renum- bered as paragraph (0) the following pro-
viso:-
"Provided that :-
(a) in the event of any building being
hereafter erected or re erected on a corner site so as to abut upon more than one street, or in the event of any building on a corner site being increased in height, the height of such building shall be regulated by the widest or wider of the streets upon which it abuts, so far as it abuts or will abut upon such widest or wider street, and also so far as it abuts or will abut upon the narrower streets or street to a distance of fifty feet from the widest or wider street: (b) in the event of any building being hereafter erected or re-erected so as to abut upon more that one street although not on a corner site, or in the event of any such building being increased in height, the height of the several parts of such building shall be regulated by the widths of the streets upon which they respec- tively abut:
(c) in no case shall the height of a build- ing or of any portion of it be regula- teď by the width of any scavenging lane, or other lane, or open space, upon which such building may abut if such lane or open space is not used or intended to be used as a means of access to a domestic build- ing other than servants quarters."
5. Section 189 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, is repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor :—
Method of determination of height of buildings.
"189.-(1) Whenever it is possible to do so the height of any building shall be deter- mined by measuring on the line of the wall abutting upon the street which regulates the height, from the level of such street, the full vertical height allowed by section 188. Such full vertical height shall also be mea- sured from the level of such street on the line of the nearest main wall of the same building opposite to the wall abutting on the street, except where such opposite wall abuts upon another street. From the points
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thus determined on the two walls lines shall be drawn at angles of thirty degrees with the horizontal, and any part of the building (except any chimney or party wall, or any ornamental tower, turret, or other architec- tural feature or decoration, or any parapet not exceeding three feet in height) falling outside such lines shall be deemed illegal : Provided always that in the case of any existing building which already exceeds in height one and a half times the width of the street upon which it abuts, the structure of
the roof, or any part thereof, shall not be altered or added to in such a manner that any portion of such structure shall fall out- side lines drawn at angles of thirty degrees with the horizontal from points determined by measuring a full vertical height equal to one and a half time the width of such street on the lines of the main walls in the manner described in this subsection.
(2) In the event of the street on which a building abuts not being level throughout the extent of such building, the height shall be measured from the central point of the external face of the wall abutting on such street.
(3) In any case which does not fall within the foregoing provisions the height of the building shall be determined in such manner as the Building Authority may direct.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of December, 1929.
E. I. WYNNE-JONES,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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