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width of
60. No verandah or balcony shall, except with the or when the 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 is 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.
Verandahs
and Balconies.
61. The number of storeys and the projection of Height and verandahs or balconies projecting over any street shall be projection of determined by measuring on the line of the wall abutting on 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 and boo 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-
buildings.
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 in domestic 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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