β¨ Building Regulations
For regulating the construction, mate-
rials, and enclosing by building or otherwise of fireplaces or furnaces to be used in the working of engines by steam, or in any mill, brewery, bakehouse, or gaswork, or in any manufactory whatsoever, although a steam engine be not used therein respectively.
For regulating the erection of tents.
For limiting a time, not in any case less than seven years from the coming into force of the limiting Regulation, after which it shall not be lawful, without the consent of the Council, to use, keep, continue, or suffer to remain any building, roof, fireplace, furnace, or chimney, or the enclosure of any fireplace, furnace, or chimney originally constructed or made without violation of law, and existing at the time of such coming into force, being of any such construction, height, thickness, materials, or description, or within any such distance of other buildings as respectively are contrary to any Regulation existing at the time of such coming into force.
For appointing fees not in any case exceeding the sum of two pounds which may be charged and received on account of the Borough fund by the proper officer of the Council, for any inspection, superintendence, or other service made or performed by him under any such Regulation as hereinbefore in this section provided for.
And every such Regulation may be made to apply to the whole or separately to a part or parts of the Borough described by boundaries in such Regulation, and may provide with respect to the several matters of prohibition, restraint, and regulation hereinbefore in this section mentioned, either absolutely or with relation to classes, rates, situations, distances, or other like data to be laid down or referred to in general terms therein, and with or without relation to a right of approval, disapproval, or inspection to be vested in the Council or some proper officer of the Council.
Constructing, &c., Buildings, &c. If any person, after the coming into force of any such Regulations as in this sub-division aforesaid, and whilst the same is in force, shall construct, alter, repair, or renew within the Borough, or within the limits prescribed in such Regulations, any building, roof, fireplace, furnace, or chimney, or put up any tent, or enclose any fireplace, furnace, or chimney contrary in any of the cases aforesaid to such Regulation, or shall after the expiration of the time (if any) limited in that behalf, and notice from the Council to remove or alter any building, roof, fireplace, furnace, chimney, or enclosure to which the limiting Regulation applies, use, keep, or continue the same, or suffer the same to remain, or if the case be so to remain unaltered for more than twenty-eight days after the time when such notice has been given him, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds for every day while such building, roof, chimney, fireplace, furnace, or tent continue so constructed, or standing, or continues so as unlawfully altered, repaired, renewed, or enclosed, or while (if the case be so) the same shall after the expiration of the said twenty-eight days, be used, kept, continued, or suffered to remain as aforesaid.
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If any building, roof, fireplace, furnace, building, &c., heretofore constructed, or any fireplace, furnace, or chimney enclosed or left unenclosed in violation of any law or bye-law theretofore in force in the Borough, it shall be lawful for the Council to give notice to the owner or occupier thereof respectively to remove or to alter or enclose, so as to conform to any Regulation in force in that behalf under this sub-division, such building, roof, fireplace, furnace, chimney, and such owner or occupier shall remove or in manner aforesaid alter or enclose the same, within twenty-eight days after the service of such notice upon him; and if such owner or occupier neglect or refuse within twenty-eight days after such notice so served to remove or in manner aforesaid to alter or enclose such building, roof, fireplace, furnace, or chimney, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which the same continues, or if the case be so continues so unaltered or unenclosed after the expiration of fourteen days from the time when he may first be convicted of any such offence under this section.
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If any chimney shall have been com- Buildings, &c., menced or constructed before the coming heretofore properly con- into operation of this sub-division, and shall structed, but be of other height, thickness, construction, or materials, or enclosed otherwise than of law respectively required by or left unenclosed contrary to the tenor of any Regulation in force under this sub-division, but shall have been so constructed, enclosed, or left unenclosed without violation of law, and if the proper officer of the Council upon inspection had (which inspection any ratepayer may, upon payment of five shillings, demand and require), shall deem that such chimney by reason of want of proper height, thickness, or enclosure, or by reason of its being constructed of inflammable materials, causes reasonable danger of fire to any building, or causes a nuisance through not properly carrying up the smoke, it shall be lawful for such officer to give notice to the owner and occupier of the premises in which such chimney is forthwith to take down or alter or enclose such chimney as the case may require, for prevention of such danger or nuisance, and if such owner or occupier do not within seven days after such notice comply with the same, then any two justices if they are satisfied that for the reasons aforesaid such chimney causes such danger
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Bye-Laws for Buildings in Christchurch
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ποΈ Provincial & Local Government11 July 1870
Bye-Laws, Building Regulations, Christchurch City Council, Municipal Corporations Act
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 31A