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(10) The Governor in Council may modify the foregoing requirements in any case in which the Crown lease or the agreement for a Crown lease has specially provided for an open space in the rear of any such building of a less area than is hereby required, and may in any other case make such modification as may be recommended by the Director of Public Works upon such conditions, if any, as may be deemed ex- pedient.

83. (1) No existing domestic building which has an Alteration open space of less area than that required by section 82 shall space.

hereafter be altered in such a manner as to encroach on the existing amount of open space and no existing domestic build- ing which has a greater amount of open space than that re- quired by section 82 shall hereafter be altered in such a manner as to reduce the amount of open space to less than that required by section 82.

(2) The Building Authority, with the consent of the Gov- ernor in Council, shall have power in any case to grant a modification of the requirements of this section upon such conditions, if any, as the Building Authority may deem ex- pedient.

of open

84. Every building, other than a domestic building, here- Access

а lane after erected or re-erected, shall be provided with such as is referred to in sub-section (1) of section 82.

lanes for non-domestic buildings.

of re-

85. For the purposes of sections 82 and 84, re-erection Meaning includes every alteration of an existing building in such a erection. manner as to make the resulting building a new building or in such a manner as to make the resulting building or any part thereof an exceptional building.

access to

open space.

86. The owner of every building provided with a Means of scavenging lane under section 82 or section 84 shall provide means of access to the open space of his building from such scavenging lane.

Vertical Height of buildings to Main wall-head.

87. The height of every building shall hereafter be re- Limitation gulated in accordance with the following rules, unless the Governor in Council shall otherwise permit :-

(1) No existing building on land leased from the Crown prior to the 21st February, 1903, which does not exceed in height one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts shall hereafter be raised to a height exceeding one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts.

(2) No existing building on land leased from the Crown prior to the 21st February, 1903, which exceeds in height one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts, shall hereafter be increased in height.

(3) No building on land leased from the Crown prior to the 21st February, 1903, shall hereafter be erected or re- erected to a height exceeding one and a quarter times the width of the street upon which it abuts.

(4) No existing building which has verandahs or balconies projecting over a street and which exceeds in height the width of the street upon which such building abuts shall hereafter be increased in height.

of height of buildings. [cf. s. 160].