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putting up the document to be served on a conspicuous part of the premises to which the same relates: Provided that any notice, summons or order required by this Ordinance. to be given, issued or made to the owner of any premises, shall be served either by leaving the same at the place of business or residence within the Colony of such owner or of his authorised agent, or if the whereabouts of such owner or agent be unknown by posting a registered letter addressed to such owner or agent, at his last-known place of residence or of business in the Colony.

Provisions concerning buildings on line of junction when ad- joining lands are unbuilt on.

Rights of building and adjoining owners.

133. Where lands held under lease from the Crown by different owners adjoin and are unbuilt on at the line of junction, and either owner is about to build on any part of the line of junction, the following provisions shall have effect:

(1) if the building owner desires to build a party wall on the line of junction, he shall serve notice thereof on the adjoining owner describing the intended wall;

(2) if the adjoining owner consents to the building of a party wall, the wall shall be built half on the land of each of the two owners, or in such other position as may be agreed between them;

(3) the expenses of the building of the party wall shall from time to time be defrayed by the two owners in due proportion, regard being had to the use made and which may be made of the wall by them respectively;

(4) if the adjoining owner does not consent to the building of a party wall, the building owner shall not build the wall otherwise than as an external wall placed wholly on his own land;

(5) if the building owner does not desire to build a party wall on the line of junction but desires to build an external wall placed wholly on his own land, he shall serve notice thereof on the adjoining owner describing the intended wall;

(6) where in any of the cases aforesaid the building owner proceeds to build an external wall on his own land, he shall have a right at his own expense, at any time after the expiration of one month from the service of the notice, to place on the land of the adjoining owner below the level of the lowest floor, the projecting footings of the external wall with concrete or other solid substructure thereunder, making compensation to the adjoining owner or occupier for any damage occasioned thereby. The amount of such compensation. if any difference arises, shall be determined in the manner in which differences between building owners and adjoining owners are hereinafter directed to be deter- mined.

Where an external wall is built against another external wall or against a party wall, it shall be lawful for the Building Authority to allow the footing of the side next such other external or party wall to be omitted.