Supervisor to furnish plan of school prem ists.
Precautions
for health and safety.
Repair.
Schools not
godowns,
3.
PART II.
SCHOOL PREMISES AND STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS.
The supervisor of every school shall on demand supply the Director with a plan or diagram, with dimensions, of the school premises.
4. In all school buildings, the design, the construction, the fire resistance of the elements of the structure and the prop- erties of the materials, shall be such that the health and safety of the occupants, and in particular their safe escape in the event of fire, shall be reasonably assured.
All school premises shall at all times he kept in a satis- factory state of repair.
6.
Lo be over
(a)
No school premises or any part thereof shall be situated- over any godown; or
shops, etc.
(b)
Maximum height of schools.
Minimum height of parapets and window openings.
Ventilation and lighting.
over any shop, store or factory unless the Director is satisfied that situation over such shop, store or factory would not constitute a danger or hazard or would not be detrimental to the bealth or well-being of the pupils.
7. No part of any school premises, except the parapet wall cound a roof playground, shall be situated at a height of more than 80 feet above ground level:
Provided that the Director, with the advice of the Director of Fire Services, may by notice in writing authorize that any part of such promises be situated at such height greater than 80 feet as may be specified in the notice.
8. The height of all parapets and window openings shall, unless such parapet or window opening is satisfactorily guarded by bars, be at least 3 feet 6 inches measured from the level of the floor immediately adjoining and where such bars are installed in openings giving access to areas to be occupied by teachers or pupils the bars shall be so installed as to be readily removable by the Fire Services in emergency.
9. (1) All school premises shall be adequately ventilated and lighted.
(2) No cubicle or partition which obstructs the free passage of light or air shall be erected in any classroom.
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(3) The ceiling of every classroom shall-
(c) in premises designed and constructed for the purposes of a school, be not less than 10 feet above the floor level of such classroom;
(b) in premises not designed and constructed for the purposes of a school, be not less than 9 feet above the floor level of such classroom.
10. Except with the consent in writing of the Director there shall not be made-
(a) any structural alterations to the school premises;
(b) any alteration to the latring accommodation or the sanitary arrangements of any school or in the ventilation or lighting of a classroom;
(c) any subdivision of a classroom.
PART III.
SCHOOL IN PREMISES NOT DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED
FOR THE PURPOSES OF A SCHOOL.
11. This Part applies to every school premises of which are, in the opinion of the competent authority for the purposes of sec- tion 12 of the Ordinance, unsuitable for the purposes of a school having regard to the loading for which they were designed and constructed.
12. No assembly of pupils, other than of the pupils permitted under these regulations to be in a classroom, shall be permitted to take place in any school premises to which this Part applies-
(a) in any room, except a room on the lowest floor of the
premises; or
(6) on the roof of the premises.
13. No gymnastics or other form of physical education shall be permitted to take place in any such school premises—
(a) in any room, except a room on the lowest floor of the
premises; or
(b) on the roof of the premises.
14. Save with the permission of the Director, no classroom in any such school premises, except a classroom on the lowest floor of the premises, shall contain any furniture of any kind whatsoever, other than desks, tables, chairs and blackboards,
Structural alterations.
Application of Part (1).
Restriction on assembly of pupils.
Restriction on gymnastics.
Restriction on furniture to be in any classroom.