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Liability of permittee.
Live wire
or cable
to be made sule.
Deposit of security.
Cancella- tion of permit.
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works specified in regulation 60, and shall maintain such hoard- ings, shoring, scaffolding, and platforms in good repair during the continuance of the permit.
(2) Except on isolated sites, all hoardings, unless exempted by the Building Authority, shall be close boarded.
(3) No hoarding, shoring, scaffolding, platform or building materials shall obstruct any drainage channel.
(4) No advertisement other than a description of the building and contractors shall be displayed on any such hoarding, shoring, scaffolding or platform.
63. (1) Where any building owner fails to comply with the provisions of regulations 61 and 62 or causes any damage to Government property in the erection or maintenance of such hoardings, shoring, scaffolding and platforms, the Building Authority may cause to be erected and maintained such hoardings, shoring, scaffolding and platforms as he may deem necessary, and may make good any such damage.
(2) The Building Authority may recover the cost of such work from the building owner.
64. Where any hoarding, shoring, scaffolding or platform is erected near to any live wire or cable, the permittee shall arrange with the owners of such wire or cable, to take the necessary precautions to render safe such wire or cable.
65. The Building Authority may require any person, to whom a permit is issued to erect any hoarding, shoring, scaffold- ing or platform in, over or upon Crown land, to make a deposit in the Treasury of a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars as security for the fulfilment of all obligations of the permittee. The amount of the deposit shall be fixed by the Building Authority who shall consider the circumstances of each particular case.
68. The Building Authority may in the public interest cancel any permit to erect and require the removal of any hoarding. shoring, scaffolding or platform even if the permittee has fulfilled all his obligations.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Clerk of Councils.
17th April, 1956.
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Explanatory Note,
(This Note is not part of the regulations but in intended to indicate their general purport).
Part I-General.
These regulations are the second in the group of three enacted under, and coming into force with the Buildings Ordinance, 1955. Reference should be made to the introductory passage in the Explanatory Note to the Building (Administration) Regulations.
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Regulation 4 prohibits buildings being so constructed that they create a nuisance on streels, whether by way of obstructions or from exhaust venta; this regulation expands the provision of section 47 of the former Ordinance. Regulation 6, which replaces section 74 of thal Ordinance, follows on by giving the Building Authority discretionary powers to require the provision of an access lane on the site of any new building which is likely to be receiving and despatching quantities of goods.
Part 11-Projections.
3. Section 21 of the Buildings Ordinance, 1955, prohibits all pro. jections over streets are those exempled by the Building Authority; the regulations in this Part set out the limitations under which such exemp- tions may be granted. Formerly projections could be constructed with the consent of the Governor in Council who could impone conditions (section 48 of the former Ordinance).
4. Few, if any, applications for the erection of verandahs have been made in the post-war period; and they are now prohibited altogether on streets by regulation & because they obstruct the passage of pedestrian traffic, and the view of drivers, which is considered unsafe,
6. Regulations 9 and 10 are designed to prevent balconies and canopies from obstructing footpaths and restricting the natural light available in the streets. These balconies are not permitted on streets less than 30 feet wide because the footpaths to such a street would normally be less than 5 feet wide, and they may not project bayond the line Lo which front main walls are required to be set back under regulation 18. The latter provision is less restrictive than that under section 50 of the former Ordinance which forbad erection of balconies where the building exceeds in height the width of the street over which the balconies are intended to project Whereas regulation 11 requires that balconies over streets must have parapets and may have enclosed sides, regulation 14 prohibits their use as a factory, bathroom, etc. Regulation 10, which requires doors, windows, etc. which open over streets to be placed at least eight feet above the ground, is a particular example on the general prohibition under regulation 4 referred to above; public safety, however, requires that emergency exit doors should open outwards over streets, and this is permitted.
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