CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935 — Page 75

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3. Any balcony projected over any street shall have a clear height underneath every part thereof of at least eleven feet measured from the top of the kerb-stone, or, if there is no kerb-stone, from the level of the centre of such street.

4. Any such verandah, balcony, or part thereof, projected over any street from any storey higher than the ground storey of any building, shall not be less than ten feet high. Such height shall be measured from the floor of the verandah, or balcony, to the under- side of the bressummers or lintels, or, if arches are used, to the highest point of the underside of each arch.

5. The ends of all such verandahs or balconies, which do not abut on any verandah or balcony existing at the date of their con- struction, shall be left open and shall be finished in all respects in a similar manner to the front elevation thereof.

6. Special plans and drawings of any such verandah or balcony shall be submitted to the Building Authority and shall be on tracing cloth and such plans and drawings shall be drawn to a scale of not less than one-tenth of an inch to the foot, and the details of all brackets, mouldings, caps, cornices, balustrades, and similar parts of the proposed structure, shall be drawn to an uniform scale of one inch to the foot. Such plans and drawings shall clearly show the lines and levels of existing kerbs and any proposed alterations to such lines or levels. Figured dimensions shall be given of such proposed alterations.

7. Any such verandah or balcony shall be constructed of iron, stone, brick or other incombustible material approved by the Build- ing Authority, except that the piers of every verandah shall on the ground floor of any building be inade of cut stone worked straight, the exposed faces of which shall be extra fine punched or of other incombustible material approved by the Building Authority.

8. All bressummers and lintels, in connection with any such verandah or balcony, shall be constructed of iron or other incom- bustible material approved by the Building Authority.

9. The roof and floors of any such verandah or balcony shall be provided, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority, with gutters laid to a proper fall and with down-pipes to carry off water.

10. In the case of balconies any bracket, which is not built into any party or cross wall or main wall other than the wall from which it projects, shall have its top member extended for a length of at least three feet underneath the floor joists, or be otherwise anchored down in a manner satisfactory to the Building Authority.

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11. The foot-path or roadway underneath any verandah balcony over unleased Crown land or projecting beyond any such verandah or balcony out to the kerb-stone shall be paved with fine cement-concrete at least four inches thick, or finely dressed granite stones, not more than eighteen inches square, closely jointed and laid on a bed of lime-concrete, or with such other materials as may be approved by the Building Authority, by the owner for the time being of the property from which such verandah or balcony projects, who shall maintain the same in good order, to the satisfaction of the Building Authority: Provided that wherever the Building Authority may consider it expedient to do so he may lay or repair any such foot-path or roadway at the expense of the owner, as afore- said, who shall pay into the Treasury, within seven days of the date of notice, the amount certified by the Building Authority as being due in respect of the work done, and in default of such payment the Building Authority may recover such amount by an action in the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction.

12. No verandah or balcony shall hereafter be constructed over any street unless the building from which it projects has a clear and unobstructed courtyard, backyard, back lane, or other open space, belonging exclusively to such building and extending across the entire width and in the rear of such building and of a minimum depth of eight feet:

Provided that:-

(a) A bridge or covered way, not exceeding three feet and six inches in width, when such is necessary for giving access to buildings in the rear of the property, shall not be deemed an obstruction to such courtyard, backyard, back lane, or other open space, within the meaning of this regulation.