344 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1856.
Buildings and Nuisances.
No. 8 of 1856.
Title.
[For construction An Ordinance for Buildings and Nuisances.
of Ordinance:
see Ordinance
No. 12 of 1856. ] [ 16th April, 1856. ]
Preamble. HEREAS further provision hath been found necessary for the better regulation
W of buildings and prevention of nuisances ; Be it therefore enacted and ordained
by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative
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Council thereof in manner following, that is to say :
Definitions. 1. The following words and expressions in this Ordinance contained shall be
construed in manner hereinafter appearing ; that is to say:
Wall. The word ' Wall ' shall extend to and include every external wall and party wall.
Floor. The word ' Floor ' shall extend to and include every horizontal platform forming
the base of any story, and every joist, board, timber, stone, and brick, or other
substance constituting the said platform.
Story. The word ' Story ' shall extend to and include the full thickness of every floor, and
the space between the under surface thereof and the upper surface of the floor or (if
there be no such floor) the ground next below the said first-mentioned floor.
Works. The word ' Works ' shall extend to and include the constructing, reconstructing,
pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building, wall, chimney,
stack, flue, drain, sewer, cesspool, or any work whatsoever.
Building. The word Building ' shall extend to and include every house, outhouse, or shed.
House. The word ' House ' shall extend to and include every dwelling house, warehouse,
shop, manufactory, work-room, distillery, and place of secure storage or custody.
Guilty of a nui (
sance. The expression guilty of a nuisance ' shall apply to and denote any person guilty
of committing or continuing any nuisance whatsoever, and any person guilty of
permitting or suffering any nuisance whatsoever, and any person guilty of omitting to
take all proper and reasonable means for procuring the abatement of a nuisance
committed and continuing within his tenement, or upon or over some way or public
place in the immediate neighborhood of his tenement, for the space of twelve hours
after the said nuisance shall have been committed .
Rules to be ob 2. All works henceforward shall be under the survey and inspection of the
served as to
works.
Surveyor General , and shall be commenced, resumed, prosecuted and completed with
due observance of this Ordinance and particularly of the rules next following, that is
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to say :
1. Walls of 1. The walls of all houses shall be solidly built of bricks or stones throughout,
houses.
and shall be of the thickness of not less than nine inches at the upper
story, thirteen and a half inches at the story immediately below the
upper story, and eighteen inches at the story (if any) immediately below
the said two stories.