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SCHEDULE B.
RULES CONCERNING EXTERNAL AND PARTY WALLS.
And with regard to external walls, in reference to the height and thickness of any parapet thereon.
If an external wall adjoin a gutter, then such external wall must be carried up, and remain two feet at the least above the highest parts of such gutter. And the thickness of an external wall so carried up above the level of the underside of the gutter-plate, and forming a parapet, must be at the least nine inches thick.
And with regard to external walls, to be used as party walls, to any building adjoining thereto, except an attached outbuilding as hereinbefore described.
If the external walls of any building be not at the least nine inches in the thickness in every part, and carried up to the proper height, or be not built of brick or stone, or other incombustible material, then such external walls must not be used as a party wall for any such building, but there must be a distinct external wall built, as above described, for external walls. But if such external wall to any building already built be at the least nine inches in thickness in every part, and be of sound and proper materials, and in good condition, and carried up to the proper height, then such wall may be used as a party wall.
PARTY WALLS.
And with regard to walls used to divide single buildings into two or more.
If it be intended to divide any building into two or more distinct parts, then every wall for that purpose must be built of sound bricks, or of stone, or of such bricks and stone together, laid in with mortar or cement, in such manner as to produce solid work, and must be at the least nine inches in thickness in every part.
If a party wall adjoin to any roof then such party wall must be carried up and remain two feet at the least above the part where the party wall and roof adjoin, measured at a right angle with the back of the rafters of such roof. And if any party wall in any building adjoin a gutter then such party wall must be carried up and remain two feet at the least above the highest part of any such gutter.
SCHEDULE C.
PORTIONS OF THE BOROUGH DECLARED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS REGULATION.
All town sections within the Borough of Timaru, as set out and numbered on the private Map of the Messrs. Rhodes, being parts of rural sections numbered 8 and 730 respectively, on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the Rural lands in the Timaru District. And all Town Sections set out and numbered on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province, setting out and describing the Government Town of Timaru, not included in Schedule A to this Regulation.
SCHEDULE D.
ENGINEERS’ OR SURVEYORS’ INSPECTION OR SUPERINTENDENCE.
£ s. d.
Fee on Buildings erected on frontage Schedule A ... 1 0 0
Fee on Buildings erected beyond one hundred feet ... 0 5 0
Fee on Buildings erected on frontage Schedule B ... 0 10 0
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 39
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Regulation No. 6 of the Council of the Borough of Timaru
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government25 July 1870
Regulation, Municipal Corporations Act, Timaru, Building Materials, Fire Safety, External Walls, Party Walls, Engineers' Inspection