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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);

(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 ";

() 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 Height of

hereafter erected or re-erected on a buildings on corner site so as to abut upon more corner sites. 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: () in the event of any building being Height of

hereafter erected or re-crected so as buildings on to abut upon more that one street sites abutting although not on a corner site, or in on more than the event of any such building being although not increased in height, the height of on corner the several parts of such building sites. shall be regulated by the widths of the streets upon which they respec- tively abut:

one street

(c) in no case shall the height of a build- Height of

ing or of any portion of it be regula- buildings not ted by the width of any scavenging to be regu- lanc, or other lane, or open space, width of lated by upon which such building may abut scavenging if such lane or open space is not lanes, etc. used or intended to be used as a means of access to a domestic build- ing other than servants quarters."

No. 1 of 1903, s. 189,

4. Section 189 of the Public Health and Buildings Repeal of Ordinance, 1903, is repealed, and the following section Ordinance is substituted therefor :-

Method of determination of height of buildings.

"189.-(1) Whenever it is possible to do and substitu- so the height of any building shall be deter- tion of new

section. mined by measuring on the line of the wall abutting upon the street which regulates the height, from the level of such street, the full vertical height allowed by section 188. Such full vertical height shall also be mea- sured from the level of such street on the line of the nearest main wall of the same building opposite to the wall abutting.on the street, except where such opposite wall abuts upon another street. From the points thus determined on the two walls lines shall