Hong Kong Regulations

BUILDING (PLANNING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 24

Height of storeys

(1) Every room used or intended to be used for the purpose of an office or for
habitation in any building shall have a height of not less than 2.5 m measured
from floor to ceiling: (L.N. 406 of 1987) Provided that there shall be not
less than 2.3 m measured from the floor to the underside of any beam.

(2) In any such room having a sloping ceiling, the height shall be measured to
the mean height of such ceiling above floor level: Provided that no portion of
any room shall have a height of less than 2 m.

(3) (Repealed L.N. 406 of 1987) (L.N. 294 of 1976)