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BUILDING (PLANNING) REGULATIONS, 1956

"factory" means any building or place in which any machinery, other than machinery worked entirely by hand, is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such building or place;

"floor" means any structure forming the base of any storey and every joist, board, timber, brick, concrete or other substance connected with and forming part of such structure;

"latrine" means a privy, commode or earth closet but does not

include a water closet or a water flushed urinal;

“'Ordinance" means the Buildings Ordinance, 1955;

"'road' means a street not including any footpath;

"room" means any portion of a building which has been sub- divided by the erection of partition walls from floor to ceiling:

"semi-detached building" means any one of a pair of buildings connected to each other by a party wall and has a clear and unobstructed open space-

(a) extending the entire depth of the building of not less than 7 feet 6 inches measured at right angles to the external surface of the building;

(6) in the rear of the building of a depth of 7 feet 6 inches measured at right angles to the external surface of the building and extending for the full width of the site; "storey" means the space between the upper surface of every floor and the upper surface of the floor next above it where such

a floor exists and in the case of a top storey the space between the upper surface of thist Hoor and the mean beight of the ceiling or roof;

"street" includes any footpath and private and public street;

"verandah" means any structure projecting from any wall of any

building and supported by piers or columns;

"water closet" means latrine accommodation used or adapted or intended to be used in connexion with a water carriage system and comprising provision for the flushing of the receptacle by a water supply.

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3. Every verandah more than two feet above ground level Verandahs and every balcony shall have a parapet or railing along its outer and edge or edges.

4.

that it-

balconies within lot boundaries and permit areas.

No building or fixture thereon shall be so constructed Buildings

(a) (i) obstructs; or

not to

obstruct, endanger

precaus

(ii) endangers the users of any adjacent footpath or nuisances.

street: or

(b) creates any nuisance; or

(c) permits the escape into or over any adjacent footpath or street at a height of less than 8 feet of any noxious gases or exhaust from any ventilating system.

5. The Building Authority may require the provision of an Access access lane on the site of any new building.

6.

lanes.

Where for the purposes of these regulations it is neces Building sary to determine the width of any road or street, the same shall Authority be determined by the Building Authority.

PART II.

Projections.

to deter mine width of roud or street.

7. (1) No projections shall be made over or upon any street Projections without a permit from the Building Authority :

Provided no permit shall be required in the case of eaves, cornices and mouldings which project not more than a feet 6 inches at a height of not less than 8 feet above the ground.

(2) Where any permit for projection is granted by the Building Authority under section 29 of the Ordinance, the permittee shall pay the prescribed fee.

Over

streets.

8. No verandah shall be erected, over or upon any street or No vecan- unleased Crown land.

8.

No balcony shall be erected over-

(a) a road; or

(b) a street which is less than 30 feet in width,

dahs over streets.

No bal- copied over roada,