1592 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH OCTOBER, 1899.
Mezzanine floors and cocklofts.
Height of buildings:
closed only by wire netting, lattice work or carved woodwork, arranged in such a way as to leave at least two-thirds open, and as far as practicable evenly distributed.
(e.) No cubicles whatever shall be erected in any room of a domestic building, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, unless such room is provided with a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having a total area clear of the window frames of at least one-tenth of the Hoor area.
(f.). No purtion of the structure of any cubicle except the necessary corner posts shall be nearer than two inches to the floor of such cubicle, and no structure shall be erected, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, within any cubicle, which is of a greater height than the maximum height allowed by this section for any portion of the structure of such enbicle or which provides a cover or roof to
the cubicle.
(9.) No partition shall be erected, or if already exist- ing shall be allowed to remain, nearer than four feet to any window the area of which is included in calculating the window area specified in sub-sec- tion (e.).
(h.) No cubicle used for sleeping purposes shall have
á less floor area than sixty-four square feet. For the purposes of this section every sub-division of a domestic building, unless such sub-division has a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having a total area clear of the window frames equal to one-tenth of the floor area of such sub-division, shall be deemed to be a cubicle.
5.-(.) It shall not be lawful to erect, or if already existing to allow to remain, in any room of any domestic building, any mezzanine floor or cockloft whatsoever, except under such regulations as may be made by the Sanitary Board with the consent of the Governor-in-Council and published in the Government Gazette, and the Sanitary Board with the consent of the Governor-in-Council shall have full power to vary, alter and repeal any such regula- tions, and to substitute new regulations therefor.
(b.) Every intermediate floor, platform, or landing of a greater length than six feet and of a greater breadth than two feet, which has not a clear space of at least nine feet, measured vertically, both above and below it, and which is not separately provided with a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having a total area clear of the window frames of at least one- tenth of the floor area, shall be deemed to be a mezzanine floor or cockloft.
6.-No building erected on land acquired from the Crown after the passing of this Ordinance shall exceed in · height one and a half times the width of the street upon which such building fronts.
The width of any street shall be measured from the building lines, as defined by the Director of Public Works, on either side of the street and at right angles to such line or lines.
No building shall exceed seventy-six feet in height without the permission of the Sanitary Board: Provided that in any special case in which, in the opinion of such Board, a departure from this rule will not be detrimental to the public health, the Board may in writing authorize such departure.
The height of any building shall be determined by measuring on the line of the main walls (both back and front) from the level of the street on which the principal front of such building abuts the full vertical height allowed by the preceding rules and by drawing from the points thus ascertained lines at an angle of thirty degrees with the horizontal, and any part of the building (except any chimney or party-wall) falling outside such lines shall be deemed illegal.
In the event of the street on which the principal front of a building abuts not being level throughout the extent of such building, or in the event of a building having two or more principal fronts respectively abutting on streets which are dissimilar in width or level, the Sanitary Board shall determine from what point or points the full vertical height, as specified in the foregoing clause, shall be measured.
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