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Maintenance and

back streets.

(c.) The Sanitary Board with the consent of the Governor-in-Council shall have power, in special cases, to modify the foregoing requirements of this section where such modification may appear necessary.

(d.) In no case may any obstructions whatever be placed or erected in these open spaces. with the exception of a bridge or covered way on each storey not exceeding three feet six inches in width when such bridges are necessary as a means of access to any part of the domestic building.

8.-(a.) Every domestic building hereafter erected in this Colony, (except in cases provided for by section 66 of the Public Health Ordinance, 1887, or coming within the terms of Articles of Agreement under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889) shall be provided with an open space in the rear in accordance with the following scale :-

An open space not less than

Houses not exceeding 40 feet in depth, for each foot of width... Honses exceeding 40 feet but not exceeding 50 feet in depth, for each

foot of width Houses exceeding 50 feet but not exceeding 60 feet in depth, for each

foot of width

Houses exceeding 60 feet in depth, for each foot of width.

8 square feet.

.10

square

feet.

.12 square feet. 14 square feet.

In no case may any obstructions whatever be placed or erected in these open spaces, with the exception of a bridge or covered way on each storey not exceeding three feet six inches in width when such bridges are necessary as a means of access to any part of the domestic building and must be provided on every floor with a window of at least ten square feet superficial area opening into such open space. The area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by sub- section (a.) of section 8 of Ordinance 15 of 1894:

Provided always that when the owners of a block of buildings agree to make and do make a lane opening at both ends upon a public thoroughfare and free from obstruction throughout both vertically and horizontally, the foregoing requirements shall be modified as follows:

Houses not exceeding 40 feet in depth: a lane not less than.

Houses exceeding 40 feet but not exceeding 50 feet in depth: a lane not

less than

Houses exceeding 50 feet but not exceeding 60 feet in depth: a lane not

less than

Houses exceeding 60 feet in depth: a lane not less than

·

6 feet wide.

8 feet wide.

11 feet wide. ...13 feet wide.

And must be provided on every floor with a window of at least ten square feet superficial area opening into such open space. The area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by sub-section (a) of section 8 of Ordinance 15 of 1894.

(b) In computing the depth of a domestic building for the purposes of this section the depth of the kitchen shall be included in the computation of such depth in every case except when such kitchen is separated from the principal room or rooms of such building by an open backyard of at least six feet in depth extending the entire width of the back of such building and unobstructed except by a bridge on each floor not more than three feet six inches wide,

9. Every street on private land, in the rear of domestic buildings, shall be and lighting of private shall be kept concreted, channelled, drained, and may if the Director of Public Works thinks fit be provided with lighting apparatus by the Government, at the expense of the owners of the land abutting on such street, and the several owners of such land shall bear the cost of such concreting, channelling, draining and providing of such apparatus in proportion to the width of their respective land at the place where it abuts on such street, and the Government may recover such proportionate cost, together with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of demand for payment of such proportionate cost inade by the Director of Public Works from any such owner, by a suit in the name of the Director of Public Works in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The cost of the illumination of such street shall, however, be borne by the Government.

Private streets and lanes.

All household, refuse shall be regularly removed by the Government from every such street.

10. Every street on private land, upon which domestic buildings front shall, if it does not fall within the provisions of the immediately preceding section of this Ordinance, be and be kept surfaced, channelled, drained, and may if the Director of Public Works thinks fit be provided with lighting apparatus by the Government, at the expense of the owners of the land abutting on such street, and the several owners of such land shall bear the cost of such surfacing, channelling, draining, and providing of lighting