1106 THE HONGKONG GOVT. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 9TH DEC., 1891.-
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 513.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :-
Ordinance No. 25 of 1891.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Building Ordinance, 1889.
Ordinance No. 26 of 1891.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate and amend the laws relating to merchant shipping, the duties of the Harbour Master, the control and management of the waters of the Colony, and the regulation of vessels navigating the same.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th December, 1891.
Tisis.
Short title.
Completion. Buildings commenced under No. 15 of 1889.
Repeal.
Walls.
External and party walls- thickness of
No. 25 OF 1891.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Building Ordinance, 1889.
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G. DIGBY BARKER,
Officer Administering the Government.
[8th December, 1891.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Building (Amendment) Ordinance, 1891, and shall be con- strued and read as one with The Building Ordinance, 1889, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.
2. Any building already commenced in accordance with the principal Ordinance may be completed in accordance with such principal Ordinance or with such principal Ordi- nance as hereby amended.
3. In section 7 of the principal Ordinance the definition 3 "Cross Walls" is hereby repealed and the following sub- stituted in lieu thereof:-
Cross wall. Any wall of brick or stone used or built in order to be used as a separation of one part of any building from another part, which shall in- clude the yards of such building, of the same building, such parts being accessible only through
a common entrance.
The definition-9 "Public building" shall be deemed to inclule any building used as a Hotel or Club.
4. The provisions of section 9 of the principal Ordinance shall apply to any warehouse of upwards of 50 feet in height. 5. Sections 10 to 14 inclusive of the principal Ordinance are hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect, any thing done or suffered thereunder and the following sec- tions are hereby substituted therefor.
Walls.
"10. Every wall constructed of brick, stone, or other hard and incombustible substance, shall be solid across its entire thickness, and shall be properly bonded and substantially put together with good lime-mortar or cement-mortar, and except where specially permitted in this Ordinance, no part of such wall shall be thicker than any part underneath it, and all cross-walls and return-walls shall be properly bonded into main-walls. Sound black bricks may be exclusively used in the walls of the two uppermost stories of a building but not in the walls of the other stories without the approval of the Surveyor General.
"11. Every person who shall erect a new building shall construct every external and every party wall of such building in accordance with the following rules and in every case the thickness prescribed shall be the minimum thickness of which such wall may be constructed.
(a.) Where the wall does not exceed 12 feet in height
it shall be 9 inches thick for its whole height. (b.) Where a wall exceeds 12 feet in height but does
not exceed 40 feet in height it shall be 13 inches thick for its whole height.
W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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