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BUILDINGS ORDINANCE 1955.

(No. 68 of 1955).

BUILDING (PLANNING) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1965.

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) Cadou and (Amendment) Regulations 1965, and shall come into operation on the comunthoe 14th day of May, 1965.

ment,

2. Regulation 15 of the Building (Planning) Regulations 1956 is Revocation revoked.

COUNCIL CHAMBES,

13th April, 1965.

of regula-

tion 15. (GNA. 37/56).

Clerk of Councils.

Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended

to indicate their general purport).

Under section 21 of the Buildings Ordinance 1955, « building or other structure (including a bridge) may not be erected in, over or upon a street unless the Building Authority has granted an exemption.

2. Experience has shown that the problems associated with the building of bridges over streets vary greatly from case to case. In particular, it has become apparent that the provisions with respect to bridges in regulation 15 of the Building (Planning) Regulations 1956 are not adequate, and that, where an Exemption is granted to permit the construction of a bridge over a street, it will be necessary to impose additional requirements as conditions of the exemption.

3. Furthermore, paragraph (1) of regulation 13 could be misleading in so far as it implies that, where buildings on opposite sides of a street are in unitary ownership. There is a right to connect them by a bridge over the street.

(Secretariat BL16/3220/64)