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(2) Proviso (1) shall only be effective for a period expiring on the 31st December 1940.
86. The owner of every building provided with open Means of space shall provide means of access to such open space to access to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.
Vertical Height of buildings to Main wall-head.
open space.
87. The height of every building shall hereafter be re- Limitation gulated in accordance with the following rules, unless the Governor in Council shall otherwise permit :-
(1) No existing building on land leased from the Crown prior to the 21st February, 1903, which does not exceed in height one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts shall hereafter be raised to a height exceeding one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts.
(2) No existing building on land leased from the Crown prior to the 21st February, 1903, which exceeds in height one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts, shall hereafter be increased in height.
(3) No building on land leased from the Crown prior to the 21st February, 1903, shall hereafter be erected or re- erected to a height exceeding one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts.
(4) No existing building which has verandahs or balconies projecting over a street and which exceeds in height the width of the street upon which such building abuts shall hereafter be increased in height.
(5) No building on land leased from the Crown after the 21st February, 1903, shall be erected to a height exceeding the width of the street upon which it abuts.
(6) No building which does not fall within the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5) of this section shall be 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 height than that specified in such of the fore-going paragraphs as would apply if such building had been so ar- ranged as to abut upon such street.
(7) No building shall exceed three storeys in height unless such building is constructed of fire resisting materials through- out and no domestic building shall exceed five storeys in height unless with the consent of the Governor in Council.
(8) 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 buildings 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 not exceeding twice the width of such narrower street as measured from the wider street.
of height of buildings.
[cf. s. 160].
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