CO129-522-11 Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1930 21-12-1929 - 20-10-1930 — Page 16

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width of any scavenging lane, or other land, or open

space, upon which such building may abut, if such

lane or open space is not to be used as a means of

access to some domestic building (other than servants

quarters).

7.

Paragraph (5) of section 188 of the principal

Ordinance provided that no domestic building should

exceed four storeys in height, including the ground

storey. Storey is defined in section 6 (53) of the

principal Ordinance as meaning a space which has a

height of at least 9 feet. Attempts were sometimes

made to evade section 188 (5) by making a ground floor

of about 8 feet in height.

This floor was not

technically a storey and the practical result was

that the house was five storeys high, using storey

in the non-technical sense. This of course tended

to overcrowding. An attempt is made in this Ordinance

to check this evasion by providing that for the

purpose of the above paragraph a storey shall include

any space having a clear height of more than 5 feet.

This will still allow the provision of a basement.

It may be mentioned that paragraph (5) of section

of the principal Ordinance now becomes paragraph (6).

8. The paragraph repealed by paragraph (b) of

section 4 of this Ordinance has been repealed because

it is spent.

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9.

No representations against the bill were received

by the Government from any quarter.

10.

In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which