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BUILDINGS. [ 15 of 1889. )
Roofs.
27. The roof of every building or of any minor superstructure Covering
roof. of
placed above such roof, shall be externally covered with tiles,
glass, metal, or other incombustible substance except the doors,
and frames of dormers or sky -lights. All hatch ways leading
out into the roofs of buildings, shall be provided with batches
or covers which if not composed entirely of metal shall be
properly sheathed externally in sheet metal.
28. No roof-timbers of any one building shall approach Roof-timbers.
nearer than nine inches towards the roof-timbers of any other
contiguous building and the space intervening between the en is
of such timbers shall be properly an :l substantially built up
solid with whole bricks or with stone laid in mortar .

29. No platform , superstructure, staging or frame-work of Platform .
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wood , mats, or other inflammable materials shall be erected or 1891 sec .25of
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fixed temporarily or permanently, over or upon the roof of any
building within the City of Victoria or any of the villages of
Hongkong and Kowloon. Provided that frames affixed to
house-roofs for the purpose of drying clothes may be made of
bamboo .

30. The roofs of all buildings including verandahs, shall in Roofs to rest
all cases rest upon, and abut against, at least nine inches of work
upon orbrick
stone .
solid brick -work or stone-work , and in all cases where the walls work.
supporting such roof are ofa less thickness than eighteen inches,
such walls shall be corbelled out in brick or stone -work imme
diately below the rafters of the roof.
I'ood - ll'ork .

31. No bond timber or wood -plate shall be built into the Bond -timber
or wood-plate.
thickness of any party or external wall.
32. No timber or wood - rork shall be placed in any wall or Timber or
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chimney -breast nearer than twelve inches from the inside of any woordwerker
near flue
flue or chimney -opening, nor under any chimney-opening within chimney
eighteen inches from the upper surface of the hearth of such opening.
chimney -opening ; nor shall'any wooden plugs be driven nearer
thau six inches to the inside of any flue or chimney -opening.
Arches,

33. Every arch under any public or private way used as a Arches.
a thoroughfare shall be formed of brick , stone, or other incom
bustible materials. If an arch of brick or stone is used , it shall,
in cases where its span does not exceed ten feet, be of a least
thickness of twelve inches ; where its span does not exceed
fifteen feet, it shall be of a least thickness of fifteen inches ;