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SCHEDULE C. [ss. 51 and 171].
Verandah and balcony regulations.
Notwithstanding anything contained in Schedule C published hereunder no structural alteration shall be required to be made in any verandah, balcony or basement already constructed in compliance with the regulations in force at the time.
1. Except as hereinafter mentioned any verandah projected over any street from the ground storey of any building shall not be less than ten feet wide, between the face of the wall from which it is projected and the inside face of the base of the piers or columns upon which it is supported.
As far as practicable, unless the Building Authority shall otherwise direct, the external face of the base of the piers or columns shall align with the face of the kerb of the side walk.
2. Any such verandah shall not be less than eleven feet high measured from the top of the kerb-stone or, if there is no kerb-stone, from the level of the centre of the street to the underside of the bressummers or lintels, or, if arches are used, to the highest point of the underside of each arch.
3. Any balcony projected over any street shall have a clear height underneath every part thereof of at least eleven feet measured from the top of the kerb- stone, or, if there is no kerb-stone, from the level of the centre of such street.
4. Any such verandah, balcony, or part thereof, projected over any street from any storey higher than the ground storey of any building, shall not be less than ten feet high. Such height shall be measured from the floor of the verandah, or balcony, to the underside of the bressummers or lintels, or, if arches are used, to the highest point of the underside of each arch.
5. The ends of all such verandahs or balconies, which do not abut on any verandah of balcony existing at the date of their construction, shall be left open and shall be finished in all respects in a similar manner to the front elevation thereof.
6. Special plans and drawings of any such verandah or balcony shall be submitted to the Building Authority and shall be on tracing cloth and such plans and drawings shall be drawn to a scale of not less than one tenth of an inch to the foot, and the details of all brackets, mouldings, caps, cornices, balustrades, and similar parts of the proposed structure, shall be drawn to an uniform scale of one inch to the foot. Such plans and drawings shall clearly show the lines and levels of existing kerbs and any proposed alterations to such lines or levels, figured dimensions given of such proposed alterations.
7. Any such verandah or balcony shall be con- structed of iron, stone, brick or other incombustible material approved by the Building Authority, except that the piers of every verandah shall on the ground floor of any building be made of cut stone worked straight, the exposed faces of which shall be extra fine punched or of other incombustible material approved by the Building Authority.
8. All bressummers and lintels, in connexion with any such verandah or balcony, shall be constructed of iron or other incombustible material approved by the Building Authority
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