CO129-522-11 Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1930 21-12-1929 - 20-10-1930 — Page 15

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power to prescribe licence fees. The omission is supplied

by section 3 of this Ordinance.

4.

It had long been recognised that sections188

and 189 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance,

1903, were not satisfactory.

One defect was that while

section 188 limited the height of buildings according to

to the width of the street upon which they fronted,

section 189, which prescribed the method of measuring

the height of buildings, dealt only with the case of

buildings which actually abutted upon streets and made

no provision for the case of buildings which fronted, but did not abut, upon a street. Sections 4 and 5 of

this Ordinance assimilate sections 188 and 189 of the

principal Ordinance on this point, and provide for the

use of the word "abut" in both those sections. The

special case of buildings which front, but do not abut,

upon a street is dealt with by giving discretion to the

Building Authority, but this discretion is limited in

the interests of the building owner by the provision

that in the case of a building which does not abut upon

a street, but is built on land abutting upon a street,

the Building Authority shall have no power to require

such building to be of a less height than if it abutted

upon the street.

5. Two of the provisoes inserted at the end of

section 188 of the principal Ordinance deal with the

special cases of buildings on corner sites and/buildings

on sites abutting upon more than one street.

6.

other

The third proviso inserted at the end of section

188 of the principal Ordinance lays down that the

height of a building shall not be regulated by the