Provision
supple. mentary to regulations 20, 20A and
208,
(3)
thai-
(a)
building or for that part of the building, as the
case may be, by more than twenty per centum o does not exceed the sum of the permitted pla ratio for the building or for that part of the building, as the case may be, and the figure obtain- ed by dividing the product of five and the arc of the part of the lot so acquired by the Cows by the area of the site on which the building is erected, whichever is the less.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared
where uuder paragraph (1) or (2) the permitiul percentage site coverage is exceeded in relation to a part of a building, the site coverage for any other part of the building shall not exceed th permitted percentage site coverage;
(b) nothing in this regulation shall be taken or cor strued as derogating from the provisions of regula. tion 22 as to the amount of open space to be provided about a domestic building.
(4) In this regulation, the expression "permitted per centage site coverage” means the maximum site coverag permitted under paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may b. of regulation 20.
20R-
20C. (1) For the purposes of regulation 20, 20A auf
(a) the height of a building shall be measured from the mean level of the street or streets on which it fronts or abuts or, where the building fronts of abuts on streets having different levels, from thr mean level of the lower or lowest of the streets to the mean height of the roof over the highest usable floor space in the building:
(b) the gross floor area of a building shall be the area contained within the external walls of the building measured at each floor level (including any door below the level of the ground), together with the area of each balcony in the building, which shall be calculated from the overall dimensions of the balcony (including the thickness of the sides ther of), and the thickness of the external walls of the building; and
(c) a street that is less than 15 feet shall be deemed
not to be a street.
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(2) In determining for the purposes of regulation 20, 20A or 20B the area of the site on which a building is erected-
(2) no account shall be taken of any part of any street
or scavenging lane; and
(b) there shall be included any area dedicated to the
public for the purposes of passage.
(3) In determining for the purpose of regulation 20. 20A or 20B the gross floor area of a building, the Building Authority may take no account of any floor space that he is satisfied is constructed or intended to be used solely for the parking, or for the loading or unloading, of motor vehicles or occupied solely by machinery or equipment for any lift, air-conditioning or heating system or any similar service.
(4) For the purposes of regulations 20, 20A and 20B. the Building Authority may treat as a non-domestic building a composite building in which the only domestic part of the building is a place of residence, not having more than 500 square feet of usable floor space, for a caretaker or other person employed in connexion with the building or a service provided therefor or a residence comprising the top storey of the building, or both.”.
Amendment
of regulation
Regulation 22 of the principal regulations is amended by- the insertion in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1), after the 2. words "domestic building", of the following-
"on a class A or B site or on a class C site, other than an island site.":
(b) the deletion from sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of the word and figure "Table II" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"the Second Schedule";
(c) the deletion of Table II:
(4) the deletion from the proviso to sub-paragraph (7) of paragraph (1) of the words "this Table" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"the Second Schedule"; and
(e) the deletion of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1).
of regulation 26.
6. Regulation 26 of the principal regulations is amended by the Amendment insertion in paragraph (1), after the word "habitation", of the following-
"or for the purposes of an office or as a kitchen".