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Ceilings prohibited.
Corbels to be of
stone or brick,
Covering of
roof to be
of incom-
bustible material.
Space between timbers of contiguous buildings.
Platforms on roofs prohibited.
only be opened when the lift cage is at rest opposite the doorway and that the lift cage cannot be moved unless the door to the lift shaft is properly closed.
(3) Every lift and hoist and any mechanism con- nected therewith shall be constructed and arranged in such manner and position as the Building Author- ity may approve.
(4) Every lift and hoist and any mechanism con- nected therewith shall be kept by the owner of the building in which such lift or hoist is installed in good order and repair and efficient working order.
Roofs to rest upon brick or slone-work.
Bond
timbers
or wood-
plates not
to be built
into walls.
Ceilings.
39. No ceiling shall hereafter be erected in any building except with the permission of the Building Authority as signified by the approval of the plaň required under the provisions of this Ordinance,
Corbelling.
40. All corbelling for the support of floor or of roof timbers shall be done in stone cut to flat beds, or in red brick, at least nine inches in length set in cement- mortar. The entire thickness of the walls through- out the height of such corbelling shall also be built in cement-mortar. No one corbelling course if of brick shall project beyond the course immediately beneath it more than two and a quarter inches.
Roofs.
41. The roof of every building and of any minor superstructure placed above such roof except the doors, and frames of dormers or sky-lights, shall be externally covered with tiles, glass, metal, or other incombustible substance. All hatchways leading out to the roofs of buildings shall be provided with hatches or covers which, if not composed entirely of metal, shall be properly sheathed externally in sheet-zinc or other metal approved by the Building Authority.
42. No roof timbers of any one building shall approach nearer than nine inches towards the roof timbers of any other contiguous building, and the space intervening between the ends of such timbers shall be properly and substantially built up solid with whole bricks or with stone laid in mortar.
43. No platform, superstructure, staging, or frame- work of wood, mats, or other inflammable material shall be erected, maintained, or fixed over or upon the roof of any building, except in cases where the Build- ing Authority grants permission for the erection of s temporary platform, superstructure, staging, or frame- work of any such material as aforesaid: Provided nevertheless, that any frame which is affixed to a roof and which is used or intended to be used solely for the purpose of drying clothes may be made of bamboo.
44. The roofs of all buildings, including verandahs shall not, unless wholly constructed of incombustible materials, be built into the thickness of any wall, but shall either rest upon the top of the wall or upon cor- belling or an offset, so arranged as to give a bearing of
of at least four and a half inches for the roof.
Wood-work.
45. No bond timber or wood-plate shall be built into the thickness of any wall.
46. No timber or wood-work shall be placed in any Timber or wall or chimney-breast nearer than nine inches from wood-work the inside of any flue or chimney-opening, nor under near fine any chimney-opening within six inches from the upper opening
or chimney- surface of the hearth of such chimney-opening.
Projections, etc.
prohibited.
47. No encroachment
or projection whatsoever, Limitation excepting eaves, cornices and mouldings not exceed of pro- ing eighteen inches projection, shall extend over any jections. street or unleased crown land unless with the special permission of the Building Authority.
48. Every eaves, cornice moulding or other pro- Mouldings jection whatsoever over any street or unleased crown shutters and
other land shall be constructed of such material and in such
projections, manner as the Building Authority may decide and no door, gate, window or shutter opening on any street shall be so hung or placed as to project be- yond the building at a height of less than seven and one half feet above the street level.
water
49. The roof of every building (including every Eaves- verandah and balcony) and the floors of every ver- gutters, andah and balcony shall be so arranged and and rain- constructed, and so supplied with eaves-gutters and down pipes rain-water down-pipes properly connected with the to he side-channels as to prevent any water being discharged provided. upon or over any public foot-path or roadway.
fares
50. Save as by this Ordinance provided, it shall not Projections be lawful for any person to make any door or gate into public in such manner as to open over a public thoroughfare, thorough- nor to project any door-step or landing on, to, or across prohibited. any public foot-path, nor to extend or affix any sun- shade, telegraph wire, signboard, lamp, grating, gutter, or other unauthorised projection from any building, in such manner as shall cause obstruction, danger, or annoyance, in any street or to the passen- gers thereon, or so as to cause any encroachment on
or over any street or unleased Crown land:
Provided that in the case of theatres and other Proviso in public buildings the doors may with the consent of case of
public the Building Authority be made to open outwards over buildings. a public thoroughfare.
Verandahs, balconies and areas.
51. No encroachment shall be made on, over or Encroach- into any street whether public or private or
into ments over unleased Crown land by any verandah or balcony, regulated,
or by any area, or by any structure whatsoever—
(1) unless with the previous consent of the Governor and subject to such conditions as he may
see fit to impose; and
Streets
(2) until the applicant for leave to make such Schedules encroachment shall have previously signed an under. A and B taking in the form contained in Schedules A or B;
and
(3) unless subject to the regulations contained in Schedules Schedules C and J or such other regulations as may C and J.
be in force: and
(4) unless the building to which such verandah. balcony, area or structure appertains shall comply in all respects with every provision of this Ordinance.
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