664 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 20, 1929.
Amendment
No. 1 of 1903, s. 16 (17).
3. Paragraph (17) of section 16 of the Public Health
of Ordinance and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, as amended by section 4 of the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, 1928, is further amended by the insertion of the words and the prescribing of the fees to be paid in respect of eating-house licences," immediately after the words "and eating-houses".
Amendment
4. Section 188 of the Public Health and Buildings of Ordinance Ordinance, 1903, is amended as follows:- No. 1 of 1903, s. 188.
Height of buildings on corner sites.
(a) in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) by the dele- tion of the word fronts "wherever it occurs and by the substitution therefor of the word
'abuts";
(b) in paragraph (3) by the deletion of the third paragraph of the proviso, beginning "The amount of compensation and ending for human habitation "
(c) in paragraph (4) by the deletion of the words
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on which it fronts" in the last line and by
the substitution therefor of the word upon which it abuts";
(d) by inserting immediately after paragraph (4)
the following new paragraph :-
(5) No building which does not fall within the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this section shall be erected or re-erected or raised to a height exceeding such height as the Building Authority may authorise, but in the case of a building on land abutting upon a street the Building Authority shall have no power to require such building to be of a less height than that specified in such of the foregoing paragraphs as would apply if such building had been so arranged as to abut upon such street"; (e) by re-numbering paragraph (5) as paragraph.
(6);
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(f) by inserting after the word 'storey at the end of the paragraph so renumbered as para- graph (6) the words--
For the purposes of this paragraph only, the term "storey" shall include any space having a clear height of more than five feet ";
(g) by inserting after the paragraph so renum- bered as paragraph (6) the following pro- viso:
"Provided that :---
(a) in the event of any building_being hereafter erected or re-erected on a corner site so as to abut upon more than one street, or in the event of any building on a corner site being increased in height, the height of such building shall be regulated by the widest or wider of the streets upon which it abuts, so far as it abuts or will abut upon such widest or wider street, and also so far as it abuts or will abut upon the narrower streets or street to a distance of fifty feet from the widest or wider street:
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