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Drains in existing buildings
to be
amended
or recon-
structed if defective.
Schedule H.
Groups of
buildings to be drained in combina- tion if
equired by Building Authority.
Owner's liabilities
as to drains.
Suspected
drains to be opened by
an officer of the Building Authority.
Where no public drainage
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100.-(1) The Building Authority may, by a writ- ten notice, require the owners of existing buildings, the drains of which are, in his opinion, in a defective or insanitary condition to construct, within a reasonable time, new drains in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, or to make such other improvements in the existing defective drainage of such buildings as may be necessary to meet the requirements of this Ordinance.
(2) Drainage regulations shall be made by the Governor in Council, and shall be included in Schedule H.
101. If the Building Authority considers that a group of contiguous buildings may be drained more ad- vantageously in combination than separately, he may order that such group be drained upon some combined plan to be approved by him, and the cost thereof, together with the expenses of maintenance, shall be apportioned by the Building Authority between the different owners of such group of contiguous build- ings.
102. If any building be without a sufficient drain, and if a public sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of the premises or outermost boundaries of the lot on which such building is situated, and .f such public sewer be on a lower level, it shall be lawful for the Building Authority to require the owner of such building to construct a drain in such a manner as shall allow of the requisite communication with such public sewer, and such drain shall be adequately trapped and ventilated to the satisfaction of the Build- ing Authority.
Provided always, that if any owner, by order o the Building Authority, drains his building into a public sewer, he shall not be required to drain such building at his own expense into any other public
sewer.
103. Whenever the Building Authority shall have reason to believe that the drains of any building are detective or in a condition injurious to health it shall be lawful for him to order an inspecting officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and, if requisite for the purpose of such inspection, such officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and made good at the public expense; but should such drains prove to be defective, the Building Authority shall cause them to be properly reconstructed, repaired, or amended by the owner in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
104. In isolated places not provided with any public drainage system, every private drain or channel system, drain shall have its course and outfall constructed in such
manner as the Building Authority may approve.
to be to
satisfaction
of Building
Authority.
Drain connexions with main
sewers to be regulated by
Director
of Public
Works
105. Every drain, on private property shall be laid as directed by the Building Authority under the provisions of this Ordinance; and, upon its completion, every such drain shall be connected with the Govern- ment main sewer by the Director of Public Works, who shall have power to regulate the number and position of the connexions to be made.
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Design of buildings.
106. It shall not be lawful to erect any Chinese Chinese domestic building (unless specially sanctioned by domestic
buildings the Director of Public Works who shall be the sole
within judge as to what constitutes a Chinese domestic
Mid-level, building) other than quarters for occupation by Hill, or servants, within the Mid-level District, the Hill Kowloon District or Kowloon Point District and no non-Chinese Foint domestic building shall be divided with the object of prohibited. providing for its occupation by more than one person
to every one thousand cubic feet of clear internal space,
Districts
any such
107. Upon the complaint of any person (whether Building such person be aggrieved or not) that a Chinese Authority domestic building has been built within the Mid-level to inspect District, the Hill District, or Kowloon Point District building on or that any domestic building in either of such complaint.
listricts is sub-divided, in contravention of the provisions of this Ordinance, the Building Authority or any officer deputed by him for the purpose, shall inspect such building, and any person in any way obstructing such inspection shall be deemed to be acting in contravention of this Ordinance.
residences of
108. Nothing in sections 106 and 107 shall be held Restriction to prevent the owners of Chinese domestic buildings not to apply now existing within the Mid-level District or the Hill to the District, or Kowloon Point District from repairing Chinese in such buildings in accordance with their present the Mid- structure, nor shall anything in this Ordinance be held level Hill
or Kowloon to preclude any Chinese or other person from owning Point or occupying or residing in any lawful domestic build- District. ing in the Mid-level District, the Hill District or Kowloon Point District; nor shall the said sections apply to any land in the occupation of the War Department, but they shall apply to any land now in the occupation of the War Department whenever such land ceases to be in such occupation
109. Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be Existing held to affect the right, which has hitherto been rights of the exercised by the Government, of forbidding the Government
to regulate erection in any part of the Colony (whether in the type of Mid-level District or the Hill District or Kowloon buildings Point District or elsewhere) of buildings of a different to be character from those previously existing on the same erected
preserved. site. The Building Authority shall have the power to refuse his approval of the plans of any building which differs in design or character from those in the immediate neighbourhood. The Governor may, how ever, in his discretion permit the erection within the Mid-level District, the Hill District or Kowloon Point District of buildings of any type of architecture if he is satisfied that they are intended for a useful public purpose other than habitation.
Occupation of new buildings.
110. (1) No new building shall be occupied or used Occupation
without a
in any way, except by caretakers only not exceeding of new two in number, until an authorised architect shall building have certified in writing to the Building Authority certificate that such building complies in all respects with the prohibited. provisions of this Ordinance, and is structurally safe, nor until the owner shall have received from the Build- ing Authority a written permit to occupy such building.
(2) If, after receiving such certificate from an authorized architect, the Building Authority or any officer deputed by him shall discover that in certain respects such building does not comply with the provisions of this Ordinance and of all Regulations made thereunder, the Building Authority may require
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