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BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS, 1956

FART X.

Regulation.

Page.

Wharves, piers and ssa-walle.

78.

Wharves, piers and sen-walls

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PART X1.

Retaining Walls,

79.

Materials

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80.

Foundations

81.

Brickwork

82.

Masonry

83.

Bond courses required

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84.

Weep holes

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Coping

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84.

Surface channels

PART XII.

Wella.

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83.

Wells prohibited in certain places

89.

Permission required from Building Authority to sink or re-open

wells

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Wolls to be of sufficient depth and diameter

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90.

Wella to be lined and filter required

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91.

92.

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Kond

93.

Access for cleaning and close fitting cover required

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Channels and paving to ground surface adjoining top of wells

required Parapet wall required where water is drawn by a bucket

PART XIII.

Fire Resisting Construction,

94.

Interpretation

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96.

Adjacent buildings

96.

Elements of construction within buildings

97. Adjoining compartments to be separated

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98.

Staircases

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99.

Topmost stergya

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100.

Openings in walls separating comportments or enclosing

staircases

10%.

Borrowed lights

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102.

Basements

BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS, 1966

BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, 1955. (No. 68 of 1955),

BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS, 1956.

PART 1.

General.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Building (Con- Citation. struction) Regulations, 1956,

2.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, loter- words and expressions have the meaning attributed to them by pretation. the Buildings Ordinance, 1955, and-

"base" in relation to a wall, means the under side of that part of the wall which immediately rests on the footings or found- ation or other structure by which the wall is carried;

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"chimney' means a construction enclosing a flue and attached

to or forming part of a building;

"chimney shaft" means a constraction not bonded into a build- ing, enclosing a vertical flue extending to a greater height above its topmost lateral support than 6 times its least horizontal dimension measured at-

(i) the base of the chimney shaft where it is not supported

above the base, or

(ii) the level of the topmost lateral support;

"chimney stack" means such part of a chimney (or a combination

of two or more chimneys) as is not within a building; "dead load" means the weight of walls, floors, roofs, partitions

and other permanent construction;

"dividing wall" means a wall which is required to be taken into

account in pursuance of regulation 44 in deeming another walf to be divided into distinct lengths:

"domestic building" means a building constructed or intended

to be used for habitation;

"external wall" means an outer wall of a building not being a party wall, even though adjoining a wall of another building; "fue" means a duct through which smoke or other products of combustion or fumes from any cooking apparatus or stove

or oven, or vitiated air, pass or are intended to pass for the purpose of reaching the open air;