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7. Regulation 101 of the principal regulations is amended by the of regulation deletion of paragraph (2) and the substitution therefor of the following-
101.
Prescribed period for
purposes of
section 26A
at the Ordinance.
468 of 1955).
"(2) Where barrowed lights are provided in any wall enclosing. in accordance with regulation 98, a staircase—
(a) the area of such lights shall be not more than one-fifth
of the total area of the wall; and
(6) the lights shall be glazed with a quarter inch wired glass
or covered with glass bricks or blocks.".
8. For the purposes of subsection (1) of section 26A of the Ordinance, the period within which plans of building works which comply with the principal regulations must be submitted to the Building Authority for his approval shall be two months from the commence- ment of these regulations.
COUNCIL Chamber,
27th November, 1959.
Explanatory Note.
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Liv
Clerk of Councils.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, bur is intended to indicate their general purport).
These regulations provide for minor amendments to the principal regulations which are considered desirable as a result of experience of the working of the principal regulatioins.
2. Regulation 4 rescinds regulation 22 of the principal regulations and replaces it by a new regulation. Buildings are required to be designed so as to withstand wind pressures to the satisfaction of the Building Authorily. They are deemed to be so designed if their design complies with the detailed provisions of any Code of Practice published by the Director of Public Works. Ad architect may design otherwise than in accordance with such Code, but in that event would have to satisfy the Building Authority that he had made adequate provision for wind effect. The advantage of a Code of Practice is that it may be worded in technical language understood by architects but not suitable for legislation, and also that it does not impose an over-rigid form of design on architects.
(Secretariat BL1/741/52)
BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, 1955,
(No. 68 of 1955).
BUILDING (PLANNING) (AMENDMENT) RegulatioNS, 1959.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 26 of the Buildings Ordinance, 1955, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations--
1. These regulations may be cited as the Building (Planning) Citation and (Amendment) Regulations, 1959, and shall come into operation on the commence- 1st day of January, 1960.
ment.
2. Regulation 2 of the Building (Planning) Regulations. 1956. Amendment (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations) is amended-
of regulation (a) by the deletion, from the definition of the word "canopy", of the word "projecting" and the substitution therefor of the following-
“which projects more than two feet six inches":
(b) by the insertion, after the definition of the word “latrine" of (G.NA,
the following new definition-
37/56).
*"open air" means a space which...
(a) is vertically uncovered and unobstructed;
(b) is not less, in any horizontal dimension, than
five feet; and
(c) where such space is enclosed on four sides, has
a horizontal area of not less than one square foot for every two feet of the mean height of the walls enclosing the space;";
(c) by the insertion, after the definition of the word "Ordinance",
of the following new definition—
'"prescribed" means prescribed by or under the Ordin-
ance;"; and
(d) by the deletion of the definition of the words "external air"
and "water closet".
3. Regulation 5 of the principal regulations is rescinded and Rescission replaced by the following-
"Access to
bulldings
and provi-
5.
and replace- ment of
(1) Every building shall be provided with means regulation 1. of obtaining access thereto from a street.
I
sion of
access lanes.
of
ele, on site
of new
building.
(2) The Building Authority may require the provision
ar access lane or access road within the site of any new building.".
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