CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935 — Page 41

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Lifts, etc.

Fire

escapes for storeys exceeding 35 feet

above street level.

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erected in any building which is constructed or adapted or converted to be used either wholly or in part as a public building, a tenement house for separate families or for offices, shall be of fire resisting materials to the approval of the Building Authority. All doors and window openings or glazed partitions communicating with any such staircase shall be adequately protected by fire resisting doors of solid teak not less than two inches thick or by wired glazing or by some other method equally satisfactory to the Building Authority.

(6) Every main staircase hereafter erected shall be provided with a handrail properly fixed on at least one side of every flight and no flight, landing, lobby or passage from one flight to another shall be of less width than three feet unless otherwise approved by the Building Authority.

(7) Every staircase and all landings, lobbies and passages from one flight to another shall at all times be kept open and free from any obstruction whatsoever.

Lifts and lift shafts.

44.--(1) Every lift or hoist shaft hereafter erected shall be inclosed by walls of fire resisting materials at least three inches thick and shall be ventilated from the highest point direct to the outer air, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.

(2) The door to every lift or hoist shaft hereafter erected shall be of fire resisting material and when such lift or hoist is used for the conveyance of passengers the door shall be so arranged that it can only be opened when the lift cage is at rest opposite the doorway and that the lift cage cannot be moved unless the door to the lift shaft is properly closed.

(3) Every lift and hoist and any mechanism connected therewith shall be constructed and arranged in such manner and position as the Building Authority may approve.

(4) Every lift and hoist and any mechanism connected therewith shall be kept by the owner of the building in which such lift or hoist is installed in good order and repair and efficient working order.

Fire escapes.

45. Every existing building and every building here- after erected which has a storey the floor of which is more than thirty-five feet above the level of the street or ground surface adjoining the front of such building shall be provided on every storey with such means of escape in the case of fire, for the persons using, dwelling or employed therein, as the Building Authority may require.

Any means of escape so provided shall be kept and maintained by the owner of the building in good condition and repair and efficient working order and no person shall obstruct or render less commodious or suffer to be rendered less commodious any such means of escape.