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and the level of the road-way and no signboard shall be hung or fixed or maintained over any footpath unless a clear space of not less than nine feet be left between the signboard and the level of the footpath.

2. No signboard which projects more than six inches from the face of a building and of which the maximum width exceeds fourteen inches shall be of a greater area than twenty square feet.

3. No signboard which is attached to the face of any building shall project more than four feet from such face unless such signboard is fixed to the under- side of the floor of a verandah or balcony.

4. No signboard of which the maximum height exceeds five feet shall project more than two feet from the face of a building.

5. No signboard, which is attached to the face of a verandah or balcony shall extend for a greater height than three feet above the level of the floor of such verandah or balcony unless it be hung or fixed at right angles to the face of such verandah or balcony.

6. Every signboard shall be secured with proper and sufficient fastenings which shall be fixed and at all times maintained to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.

7. Every signboard which fails to comply with the above conditions will be treated as a contravention of the Buildings Ordinance 1933: Provided that distinctive signboards such as those used by pawn- brokers will be permitted so long as they comply with the provisions of condition No. 6 and conform to a design and size approved by the Building Authority.

Schedule K.

[ss. 8 and 171.]

Exceptional Buildings Regulations. Reinforced Concrete.

1. The Reinforced Concrete Regulations made by the London County Council under the provisions of section 23 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1909, on the 6th day of July, 1915, shall be deemed to be in force in every part of the Colony to which the Buildings Ordinance, 1933, for the time being and from time to time applies, subject to the applicability of such Regulations, and with such modifications as the provisions of the said Ordinance and the circumstances may require or render necessary, and with any modification specially allowed by the Building Authority in any particular

case.

2. Every plan hereafter submitted of a building to be constructed wholly or partly of reinforced concrete shall be accompanied by proper and complete calculations relevant to such reinforced concrete, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority, and by a certificate, signed by an authorised architect, in the form in the Schedule of these regulations.

3. Effective supervision shall be exercised in and throughout the construction of every building referred to in regulation 2 of these regulations; and upon the completion of such construction, and in the case of a new building before the grant of the prescribed permit to occupy the building a certificate that such supervision has been exercised, signed by an authorised architect, shall be furnished by him to the Building Authority.