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power to prescribe licence fees. The omission is supplied
by section 3 of this Ordinance.
4.
It had long been recognised that sections188
and 189 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance,
1903, were not satisfactory.
One defect was that while
section 188 limited the height of buildings according to
to the width of the street upon which they fronted,
section 189, which prescribed the method of measuring
the height of buildings, dealt only with the case of
buildings which actually abutted upon streets and made
no provision for the case of buildings which fronted, but did not abut, upon a street. Sections 4 and 5 of
this Ordinance assimilate sections 188 and 189 of the
principal Ordinance on this point, and provide for the
use of the word "abut" in both those sections. The
special case of buildings which front, but do not abut,
upon a street is dealt with by giving discretion to the
Building Authority, but this discretion is limited in
the interests of the building owner by the provision
that in the case of a building which does not abut upon
a street, but is built on land abutting upon a street,
the Building Authority shall have no power to require
such building to be of a less height than if it abutted
upon the street.
5. Two of the provisoes inserted at the end of
section 188 of the principal Ordinance deal with the
special cases of buildings on corner sites and/buildings
on sites abutting upon more than one street.
6.
other
The third proviso inserted at the end of section
188 of the principal Ordinance lays down that the
height of a building shall not be regulated by the