CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935 — Page 43

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Timber or

wood-work

near flue

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54. No timber or wood-work shall be placed in any wall or chimney-breast nearer than nine inches from the

or chimney. inside of any flue or chimney-opening, nor under any chimney- opening within six inches from the upper surface of the hearth of such chimney-opening.

opening prohibited.

Limitation

of pro-

jections.

Mouldings shutters and other projections.

Projections into public thorough- fares

prohibited.

Proviso in

case of

public buildings.

Encroach.

ments over Streets regulated.

Schedules

E and F.

Schedules

G and H.

Balconies forbidden in streets less than 25

feet wide;

Projections, etc.

55. No encroachment or projection whatsoever, except- ing eaves, cornices and mouldings not exceeding eighteen inches projection, shall extend over any street or unleased Crown land unless with the special permission of the Building Authority.

56. Every eaves, cornice moulding or other projection whatsoever over any street or unleased Crown land shall be constructed of such material and in such manner as the Building Authority may decide and no door, gate, window or shutter opening on any street shall be so hung or placed as to project beyond the building at a height of less than seven and one half feet above the street level.

57. Save as by this Ordinance provided, it shall not be lawful for any person to make any door or gate in such manner as to open over a public thoroughfare, nor to project any door-step or landing on, or across any public foot-path, nor to extend or affix any sunshade, telegraph wire, signboard, lamp, grating, gutter, or other unauthorised projection from any building in such manner as shall cause obstruction, danger, or annoyance, in any street or to the passengers thereon, or so as to cause any encroachment on or over any street or unleased Crown land:

Provided that in the case of theatres and other public buildings the doors may with the consent of the Building Authority be made to open outwards over a public thorough- fare.

Verandahs, balconies and areas.

58. No encroachment shall be made on, over or into any street whether public or private or into unleased Crown land by any verandah or balcony, or by any area, or by any structure whatsoever-

(1) unless with the previous consent of the Governor and subject to such conditions as he may see fit to impose:

and

(2) until the applicant for leave to make such encroach ment shall have previously signed an undertaking in the form contained in Schedules E or F; and

(3) unless in accordance with the regulations contained

in Scherlules G and H; and

(4) unless the building to which such verandah, balcony, area or structure appertains shall comply in all respects with every provision of this Ordinance.

59. No balcony shall, except with the consent of the Governor in Council, be hereafter erected or re-erected to project over any street, whether public or private, which is less than twenty-five feet in width.

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width of

60. No verandah or balcony shall, except with the or when the

building consent of the Governor in Council, be hereafter erected or exceeds in re-erected to project from any building which exceeds in height the height the width of the street over which such verandah or the street, balcony intended to project, nor shall any building from which a verandah or balcony projects be afterwards increased in height so as to exceed the width of the street over which such verandah or balcony projects.

Balconies.

61. The number of storeys and the projection of Height and verandahs or balconies projecting over any street shall be Verandahs

projection of determined by measuring on the line of the wall abutting on and such street a vertical height equal to the width of the street over which the verandahs or balconies are intended to project and from the point thus determined a line at an angle of 75° with the horizontal shall be drawn and any part of a verandah or balcony except the balustrade, falling outside such line shall be deemed illegal, and no portion of any verandah or balcony shall project beyond the line of kerb of the footpath underneath such verandah or balcony provided that in no case shall the projection exceed 11'6" from the lot boundary adjoining such verandah or balcony and if there be no foot- path the projection of the verandah or balcony shall be determined by the Building Authority.

62. The width of a street shall be determined by the Building Building Authority.

Restriction on partitions, obstructions and inclosures in verandahs or balconies,

Authority

to determine width of street.

and balconies

63. No partition (other than such as may be necessary Verandahs for the separation of the verandah or balcony of any building not to be from the verandah or balcony of any adjacent building) shall inclosed. be erected in any verandah or balcony over unleased Crown land or over any street, nor shall any such verandah or balcony be obstructed or inclosed wholly or in part, (except by a balustrade not exceeding 3 feet in height) or used as a bathroom, urinal, water closet, sleeping apartment, store- room, or kitchen, nor shall any rain or other water be dis- charged therefrom save in the manner hereinbefore provided .

Provided that, in the case of hotels and blocks of offices, such partitions may be erected as may be necessary for the separation of one room or suite of rooms from any adjacent

room.

Kitchens, fireplaces and chimneys.

accommoda-

in domestic

64. Every domestic building, and every floor of a Kitchen domestic building which is separately let for dwelling pur- tion to be poses, shall be provided with adequate kitchen accom- provided modation, the internal area of which shall not, except with buildings. the permission of the Building Authority, as signified by the approval of the plan required under the provisions of this Ordinance, be less than sixty square feet, and every kitchen shall be provided with a properly constructed fireplace, and every kitchen shall be properly paved or floored with cement- concrete or other non-absorbent material approved by the Building Authority. The internal surface of the walls, of every kitchen shall also be rendered in cement-mortar, or other non-absorbent material approved by the said Authority,

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