Hong Kong Regulations

BUILDING (PLANNING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 32

Restriction on distance any part of room may be from prescribed window

No part of any room used for habitation shall be more than 9 m, measured
within the room, from a prescribed window which faces directly into the
external air or, where, under and in accordance with regulation 33, a window
opens on to an enclosed verandah or balcony or on to a conservatory or on to
any similar enclosed place or is, under regulation 71, permitted to open on to
an unenclosed verandah or balcony or any other unenclosed place, from the
outer edge of the verandah, balcony, conservatory or enclosed or unenclosed
place, as the case may be. (G.N.A. 83 of 1959; L.N. 294 of 1976)