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15. Reinforced concrete construction has been developed

largely since the passing of the principal Ordinance. The

second object of this Ordinance is to deal with that method

of construction and with its relation to the questions of

public safety and public health.

16. Section 4 of this Ordinance amends the definition

of exceptional building in paragraph (25) of section 6 of

the principal Ordinance. The principal change in the defini-

tion is that buildings made wholly or partly of reinforced

concrete are specifically referred to. They were probably

included in the former definition under the words "every

building of glass, iron or other material not provided for

in this Ordinance", but it seems desirable to refer expressly

to this particular form of constructionwhich has come into

prominence in recent years. It is also provided in the new

definition that the term exceptional building shall include

every part of every building which is an exceptional building

within the meaning of the first part of the definition.

17. Sections 97 and 98 of the principal Ordinance were

unsatisfactory. In the first place section 97 gave the

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Building Authority/certain discretion with regard to every

exceptional building, while 98 gave him a wide discretion with

regard to a particular class of exceptional building. Again,

it might have been argued that section 97 referred only to the

general public, though it is obvious that the safety of a

building might be of little importance to the public at large

but of great importance to the persons using the building, e.g.,

the employees in a factory. Accordingly, section 7 of this

Ordinance substitutes for section 97 of the principal Ordi-

nance a section which gives the Building Authority discretion