CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935 — Page 76

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(b) The Building Authority shall have power to modify this regulation in any case in which he may consider it expedient to do so.

SCHEDULE H.

[ss. 58 & 166.]

Signboard Regulations.

1. No signboard shall be hung or fixed or maintained over any roadway unless a clear space of not less than fourteen feet be left between the signboard and the level of the road-way and no signboard shall be hung or fixed or maintained over any footpath unless a clear space of not less than nine feet be left between the signboard and the level of the footpath.

2. No signboard which projects more than six inches from the face of a building and of which the maximum width exceeds fourteen inches shall be of a greater area than twenty square feet.

3. No signboard which is attached to the face of any building shall project more than four feet from such face unless such sign- board is fixed to the underside of the floor of a verandah or balcony.

4. No signboard of which the maximum height exceeds five feet shali project more than two feet from the face of a building.

5. No signboard, which is attached to the face of a verandah or balcony shall extend for a greater height than three feet above the level of the floor of such verandah or balcony unless it be hung or fixed at right angles to the face of such verandah or balcony.

6. Every signboard shall be secured with proper and sufficient fastenings which shall be fixed and at all times maintained to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.

7. Every signboard which fails to comply with the above con- ditions will be treated as a contravention of the Buildings Ordinance, 1935. Provided that distinctive signboards such as those used by pawnbrokers will be permitted so long as they comply with the pro- visions of condition No. 6 and conform to a design and size approved by the Building Authority.

SCHEDULE J.

[ss. 104 & 166.]

Drainage (including water closets and urinals) Regulations.

1. Nothing in these regulations shall affect any existing drain, sewer, water closet or urinal constructed and maintained in com- pliance with by-laws or regulations previously in force until such drain, sewer, water closet or urinal shall become defective.

2. In these regulations, (a) "Drain

means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed, and main drain means the whole of such drain excluding any branches thereof.

(b) Sewer includes sewers and drains of every description except drains to which the word drain interpreted as aforesaid applies.

3. Any owner or occupier of private premises about to construct, reconstruct, alter or amend any drain shall give the notice and for- ward the plans required by section 6 of the Buildings Ordinance, 1935. Such plans must show the whole of the drainage works pro- posed to be carried out, the diameter of the pipes, their gradient and their connexion to the main drain, sewer, channel or nullah, and

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