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(40) "Wall" includes cross wall, external wall, main Wall. wall, partition wall, party wall, and every other kind of wall whether supporting any structure or not.

(41) "Window" means a structure placed in an Window. opening in the wall of a building and consisting of sashes hinged to or sliding within a framework of wood, metal, brick or cement, so arranged as to admit light and capable, when opened, of also admitting air.

(42) "Works" includes the partial or total con- Works. structing, reconstructing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building, retaining wall, chimney-stack, flue, ground, road, well drain, sewer, and any other building operation what-

soever.

Authorised Architects.

architects.

5.-(1) The Clerk of Councils shall publish annually List of by notification in the Gazette a list of all such authorised architects, engineers and other persons, as the Governor in Council may deem qualified to perform the duties required by this Ordinance to be performed by an authorised architect, which shall include the names of the Director of Public Works and of such other officers of the Public Works Department as the Governor in Council may think fit. The Clerk of Councils shall from time to time similarly publish the names of persons added to or removed from the last published annual list by Order of the Governor in Council. The last published list as so amended shall be deemed the current authorised list.

(2) The Governor in Council shall not order the insertion of the name of any person in any such list unless he deems him in all respects fit and suitable to be authorised.

(3) The Governor in Council may by order remove the name of any authorised architect who has ceased to practice in the Colony; he may also, on any ground which he may deem sufficient, remove the name of any person he may consider unfit or unsuitable to continue to be authorised; but in such last mentioned case notice shall be given, if practicable, to the person whose name it is proposed to remove and he shall be entitled to be heard by the Governor in Council, either in person or by counsel, before such removal is made.

Building materials.

6. Except as hereinafter provided, the walls of all Authorised permanent buildings shall be constructed exclusively building of good hard well burnt brick, sound stone, or other materials. hard and incombustible material approved by the Building Authority.

7. Subject to the provisions of any regulations made under section 8, the design construction and situation buildings.

Exceptional of every exceptional building shall be subject to the special approval of the Building Authority.

8. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council Fower to to make regulations governing the design, construction make regula and situation of exceptional buildings or any class of to exception- tions relating exceptional building.

al buildings. Scredule K.

9. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary Buildings provided, where any building is outside the boundaries in districts of the City of Victoria or Kowloon such building if outside the separated by a distance of not less than one hundred Victoria or

City of and fifty feet from any other building, may have Kowloon, walls, verandahs and balconies constructed wholly or partly of wood, and such building shall be deemed to be an exceptional building and shall be subject to the approval of the Building Authority in each particular case.

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