344
Title.
[For construction of Ordinance: see Ordinance No. 12 of 1856.]
Preamble.
Definitions.
Wall.
Floor.
Story.
Works.
Building,
House.
Guilty of a nuisance.
Rules to be observed as to works.
1. Walls of houses.
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1856.
Buildings and Nuisances.
No. 8 of 1856.
An Ordinance for Buildings and Nuisances.
[16th April, 1856.]
WHEREAS further provision hath been found necessary for the better regulation of buildings and prevention of nuisances; Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof in manner following, that is to say:
1. The following words and expressions in this Ordinance contained shall be construed in manner hereinafter appearing; that is to say:-
The word 'Wall' shall extend to and include every external wall and party wall. The word 'Floor' shall extend to and include every horizontal platform forming the base of any story, and every joist, board, timber, stone, and brick, or other substance constituting the said platform.
The word 'Story' shall extend to and include the full thickness of every floor, and the space between the under surface thereof and the upper surface of the floor or (if there be no such floor) the ground next below the said first-mentioned floor.
The word 'Works' shall extend to and include the constructing, reconstructing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building, wall, chimney, stack, flue, drain, sewer, cesspool, or any work whatsoever.
The word 'Building' shall extend to and include every house, outhouse, or shed.
The word 'House' shall extend to and include every dwelling house, warehouse, shop, manufactory, work-room, distillery, and place of secure storage or custody.
The expression 'guilty of a nuisance' shall apply to and denote any person guilty of committing or continuing any nuisance whatsoever, and any person guilty of permitting or suffering any nuisance whatsoever, and any person guilty of omitting to take all proper and reasonable means for procuring the abatement of a nuisance committed and continuing within his tenement, or upon or over some way or public place in the immediate neighborhood of his tenement, for the space of twelve hours after the said nuisance shall have been committed.
2. All works henceforward shall be under the survey and inspection of the Surveyor General, and shall be commenced, resumed, prosecuted and completed with due observance of this Ordinance and particularly of the rules next following, that is to say:-
1. The walls of all houses shall be solidly built of bricks or stones throughout, and shall be of the thickness of not less than nine inches at the upper story, thirteen and a half inches at the story immediately below the upper story, and eighteen inches at the story (if any) immediately below the said two stories.
344
Title.
[For construction of Ordinance: see Ordinance
No. 12 of 1856.]
Preamble.
Definitions.
Wall.
Floor.
Story.
Works.
Building,
House.
Guilty of a nui-
sunce.
Rules to be ob served as to works.
1. Walls of houses.
ORDINANCE No. 8 or 1856.
Buildings and Nuisances.
No. 8 of 1856.
An Ordinance for Buildings and Nuisances.
[16th April, 1856.] HEREAS further provision hath been found necessary for the better regulation
WH
of buildings and prevention of nuisances; Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof in manner following, that is to say:
1. The following words and expressions in this Ordinance contained shall be construed in manner hereinafter appearing; that is to say:-
The word 'Wall' shall extend to and include every external wall and party wall. The word 'Floor' shall extend to and include every horizontal platform forming the base of any story, and every joist, board, timber, stone, and brick, or other substanco constituting the said platform.
The word 'Story' shall extend to and include the full thickness of every floor, and the space between the under surface thereof and the upper surface of the floor or (if there be no such floor) the ground next below the said first-mentioned floor.
The word 'Works' shall extend to and include the constructing, reconstructing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building, wall, chimney, stack, flue, drain, sewer, cesspool, or any work whatsoever.
The word 'Building' shall extend to and include every house, outhouse, or shed.
The word 'House' shall extend to and include every dwelling house, warehouse, shop, manufactory, work-room, distillery, and place of secure storage or custody.
The expression 'guilty of a nuisance' shall apply to and denote any person guilty of committing or continuing any nuisance whatsoever, and any person guilty of permitting or suffering any nuisance whatsoever, and any person guilty of omitting to take all proper and reasonable means for procuring the abatement of a nuisance committed and continuing within his tenement, or upon or over some way or public place in the immediate neighborhood of his tenement, for the space of twelve hours after the said nuisance shall have been committed.
2. All works henceforward shall be under the survey and inspection of the Surveyor General, and shall be commenced, resumed, prosecuted and completed with due observance of this Ordinance and particularly of the rules next following, that is to say:-
1. The walls of all houses shall be solidly built of bricks or stones throughout, and shall be of the thickness of not less than nine inches at the upper story, thirteen and a half inches at the story immediately below the upper story, and eighteen inches at the story (if any) immediately below the said two stories.
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