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Rescission

7. Regulation 18 of the principal regulation is rescinded and

and replace. replaced by the following-

ment of

regulation 18. ...

**Above

Rescission

and replace-

ment of

regulation 19.

Amendment

permitted

height, wolla fronting or abutting on street to be set buck.

18. (1) Above the permitted height or above any excess over the permitted height permitted under regula- tions 17 and 17A, as the case may be, a wall frosting or abutting on a street shall be set back within an angle of 76° with the horizontal.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation- "permitted height" means the height permitted under

paragraph (1) of regulation 17; and

"street" shall not include a street or scavenging lane, less

than fifteen feet wide.".

X. Regulation 19 of the principal regulations is rescinded and replaced by the following—

“Building

Authority to determine height of

buildings de certain costs.

9.

19. Where a site or a building fronts or abuts on a permanent open space, the height and volume of any build- ing on such site or of such building shall be such as may be determined by the Building Authority.".

Regulation 20 of the principal regulations is amended by the

of regulation deletion of paragraph (3) thereof.

20.

Addition of new regula-

tion 20A,

Addtion of

dew regula-

tion 22A.

Amendment

10. The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after regulation 20. of the following new regulation-

"Height and volume of buildings on slocet. Jess Then 15

feet wide.

20A. Where a building fronts or abuts on a street Jess than fifteen feet wide, the height and volume of the building shall be such as the Building Authority may determine.".

11. The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after regulation 22, of the following new regulation—

"New build- ings on

existing street less than 13

Fert wide to

be set back

from centre

ling of street.

22A. Where the width of an existing street in front of any new building is less than fifteen feet, no part of such building shall be nearer to the centre line of the street than seven and a half feet.”.

12. Regulation 25 of the principal regulations is amended by the

of regulation insertion therein, after the word "used", of the following- 2.5,

"or intended to be used".

13. Regulation 26 of the principal regulations is rescinded and Rescission

and replace- replaced by the following-

ment of

"Eighting and ventilation of roomy used or

(2) Such natural lighting and ventilation shall be Intended to be used for

provided by means of one or more windows which shall habitatio. be-

26. (1) Every room used for habitation shall be pro- regularies 26. vided with natural lighting and ventilation.

Minimu equirements

of window.

(a) so constructed that--

(1) the aggregate superficial area of glass in the window or windows is not less than one-tenth of the area of the floor of the room; and

(i) the windows can, to an extent at least equal in the aggregate to one-sixteenth of the area of the floor of the room, be opened in such manner that the top of the opening of each window is at least seven feet above the level of the floor or, in the case of detached and semi-detached buildings, at least six feet six inches above the level of the floor; and

(b) such that not less than the area required by sub-sub-paragraph (1) of sub-paragraph (a) (bere- inafter referred to as the prescribed window) faces directly into the external air.

26A. (1) No prescribed window shall, for the purposes of regulation 26, be deemed to face into the external air unless-

(a) it faces into a street which is not less than fifteen

feet wide; or

(b) it faces into a space uncovered and unobstructed above the arca delineated by the rectangular horizontal plane; and

(c) it is so placed that, if another rectangular plane, the base whereof is equal to and common with the base of the rectangular horizontal planc, is înclined, above the rectangular horizontal plane. at an angle of 714a from the horizontal, no part of the building, or of any other building within the site on which such building is erected, pro- trudes above such plane; or

(d) where such window opens on to an area bounded on the side opposite the window by a boundary of the site on which the building is erected, such window is so placed that, if the rectangular hori-