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Alteration of open space.
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in the rear of the building of a depth of not less than eight feet and extending for the full width of the site, but no such building shall be deemed to be semi-detached unless it is one of a pair of buildings each of which has a side lane or yard as above described.
(3) Kitchens, bathrooms and latrines not exceed- ing eleven feet in height above the highest point of the surface of the open space may be erected in the aforesaid open space, but such buildings shall not cover more than one third of such open space.
(4) In the event of the open space being provided partly in the rear and partly at the side, the pro- portion of such open space shall not in either case be less than one half of the whole area required under this section.
(5) The open space in the rear or at the side shall not be enclosed except by boundary walls of a height not exceeding eight feet, containing a doorway communicating with the lane, in the rear or the side lane provided under sub-section (2) of this section.
(6) In no case shall any obstruction whatever be placed or erected in any lane or open space provided under this section except as hereinbefore permitted.
(7) In no case shall the Building Authority require the space for a lane to be of a greater width than eight feet and any width in excess of six feet may be included as open space.
(8) No portion of any street shall be included in calculating the area of open space required by this section except as allowed by sub-section(7).
(9) For the purpose of this section, no yard or space which is enclosed on all side by walls having a height of more than eight feet shall be included in calculating the area of open space.
(10) The Governor-in-Council may modify the fore- going requirements in any case in which the Crown lease or the agreement for a Crown lease has specially provided for an open space in the rear of any such building of a less area than is hereby required, and may in any other case, make such modification as may be recommended by the Director of Public Works upon such conditions, if any, 28 may be deemed expedient.
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86.—(1) No existing domestic building which has open space of less area than that required by section 85 shall hereafter be altered in such a manner as to encroach on the existing amount of open space and no existing domestic building which has a greater amount of open space than that required by section 85 shall hereafter be altered in such a manner as to reduce the amount of open space to less than that required by section 85.
(2) The Building Authority, with the consent of the Governor-in-Council, shall have power in any case to grant a modification from the requirements of this section upon such conditions, if any, as the Building Authority may deem expedient.
87. Every building, other than a domestic build- ing, hereafter erected or re-erected, shall be provided non-domestic with a lane 86 required by sub-section (1) of buildings.
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88. For the purposes of sections 85 and 87, re- Meaning erection includes every alteration of an existing of re building in such a manner as to make the resulting erection. building a new building or in such a manner as to make the resulting building or any part thereof an exceptional building.
89. The owner of every building provided with a Means of scavenging lane under section 85 or section 87 shall access to provide means of access to the open space of his open space. building from such scavenging lane.
Private streets.
90. No new street on land held under lease from New the Crown shall be constructed for the purpose of the private erection of new buildings fronting thereon until a streets
to be block plan of the whole of the property concerned
approved by drawn to a scale of not less than one-twentieth of an Building inch to the foot, showing such proposed street, and Authority.
its connexions with neighbouring streets together with the proposed levels and any scavenging lanes as well as the proposed method of construction and surface drainage, shall have been submitted to and approved by the Building Authority.
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91. No new street on land held under lease from Width of the Crown within the City of Victoria, which new private domestic buildings front shall be of less width streets. throughout than thirty feet, and 1:0 such street outside the City of Victoria shall be of a less width throughout than forty feet. Every such street shall open, at one end at least, upon some existing
or projected public street.
92. Every person who shall erect fronting a private Space in lane any new domestic building shall so place the said front of new building that along its entire frontage there shall be buildings in
private 80 open space of at least seven and a half feet in width, measured from the centre line of such lane.
lanes.
93. (1) No building shall hereafter be erected or Obstruction re-erected over any entrance to or over or upon any of street by
buildings portion of any street on land held under lease from prohibited. the Crown nor shall any other obstruction of any kind be maintained or placed in, over, or upon any portion of any such street, unless with consent of the Governor in Council,
(2) In the event of the refusal of the Governor in Compensa- Council to consent to the re-erection of any building to tion in which this section applies, compensation shall be paid case of by the Government to the owner of such building, the refusal to amount of such compensation to be determined by erection. arbitration as hereinafter provided.
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the Penalty.
(3) Every person who contravenes any of provisions of this section shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
streets.
94. Every street on land held under lease from Maintenance the Crown shall be and shall be kept concreted or and lighting otherwise surfaced at the discretion of the Building of private Authority and shall be channelled and drained and may, if the Building Authority thinks fit, be provided with lighting apparatus by the Government at the expense of the owners of such street and the several owners of such street shall bear the cost of such concreting or surfacing, channelling, drainage, and providing such apparatus in proportion to the area of the street owned by them respectively, and the Government may recover such proportionate cost together with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of demand for payment thereof made by the Building Authority
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