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9. The roof and floors of any such verandah or balcony shall be provided, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority, with gutters laid to a proper fall and with down-pipes to carry off water,
10. In the case of balconies any bracket which is not built into any party or cross wall or main wall other than the wall from which it projects, shall have its top member extended for a length of at least three feet underneath the floor joists.
11. The foot-path or roadway underneath any verandah or balcony over unleased Crown land or projecting beyond any such verandah or balcony out to the kerb-stone shall be paved with fine cement- concrete at least four inches thick, or finely dressed granite stones, not more than eighteen inches square closely jointed and laid on a bed of lime-concrete, or with such other materials as may be approved by the Building Authority, by the owner for the time being of the property from which such verandah or balcony projects, who shall maintain the same in good order, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority: Provided that wherever the Building Authority may consider it expedient to do so he may lay or repair any such foot-path or readway at the expense of the owner, as aforesaid, who shall pay into the Treasury, within seven days of the date of notice, the amount certified by the Building Authority as being due in respect of the work done, and in default of such payment the Building Authority may recover such amount by an action in the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction.
12. All balconies hereafter erected at the first floor level and projecting over any street may be of a width equal to the width of the footpath underneath such balcony and if there be no footpath then the width of the balcony shall be determined by the Building Authority.
18. All balconies projected over any street from any storey higher than the ground storey shall not be of a greater width than three feet six inches.
14. No verandah or balcony shall hereafter be constructed over any street unless the building from which it projects has a clear and unobstructed courtyard, backyard, back lane, or other open space, belonging exclusively to such building and extending across the entire width and in the
rear of such building and of a minimum depth of eight feet:
Provided that:-
(a) A bridge or covered way, not exceeding three feet and six inches in width, when such is necessary for giving access to buildings in the rear of the property, shall not be deemed an obstruction 10 such courtyard. backyard, back lane, or other open space, within the meaning of this regulation.
tb The Building Authority shall have power to modify this regulation in any case in which he may consider it expedient to do so.
SCHEDULE D. [ss. 116 and 171].
Matshed regulations.
GENERAL.
other
1. In these regulations, "matshed" includes struc- ture of wood, mats, palm leaves, thatch 나인 inflammable material.
2. No matshed shall be erected or maintained Proximity to within fifty yards of any other building unless with buildings. the permission in writing of the Building Authority.
3. Every application for permission to erect a Application. matshed shall specify the proposed dimensions of the matshed, the period of time for which such matshed
is required and, if it is intended for habitation by more than two persons, the maximum number of persons it is intended to accommodate at night; and no matshed shall be used for habitation by more than two persons unless the permission to erect such matshed expressly states that it may be so used.
4. No part of the structure of any matshed shall be Proximity to within ten feet of any telegraph or telephone wire.
telegraph and telephone wires.
5. The permit-holder shall be responsible for any Contraven- act or omission by which any of these regulations ¡tions. contravened and shall indemnify the Government and the Building Authority from all and every claim that may be brought against the Government, or the Building Authority, in respect of sanctioning the erection of the matsheds referred to in such permit.
6. Any contravention of these regulations and any Penalty. breach of the conditions of a permit will entitle the Building Authority to cancel and withdraw the permit without notice, and will render the person responsible for any such contravention or breach liable upon summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
7. Every matshed, shall at all times, be kept in a Sanitary cleanly condition, and all garbage and other refuse maintenance.
nafters shall be removed therefrom at least once every twenty-four hours and be properly disposed of
to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.
8. On the expiry of the permit the permit-holder Removal shall remove such matshed without delay and shall clear the site to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.
SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR MATSHEDS USED OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR HABITATION.
9. The following regulations apply only to matsheds Application used or intended to be used for habitation by more of Regula- than two persons,
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10. The site of every such matsbed shall be levelled, Freparation and the site including the ground surface for a distance of not less than three feet from the outer walls of such matshed, shall be covered with a layer of good lime or cement-concrete at least six inches thick and finished off smooth to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.
Provided that in all cases in which the floor of the matshed averages at least two and a half feet above the ground and the space below such floor is not inclosed, or in which the matshed is erected over water, the foregoing requirements may with the per- mission of the Building Authority be dispensed with.
11. No such matshed may be erected in such a Distance manner that any part of any external wall of such from hill- matshed is at a less distance than eight feet horizontal- side. ly from any hill-side or bank of earth.
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