Hong Kong Regulations

BUILDING (PLANNING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 33

Windows opening on to enclosed verandah, etc.

Where any room used or intended to be used for habitation or for the purposes
of an office has a window which opens on to an enclosed verandah or balcony or
on to a conservatory or on to any similar enclosed place, within, in each
case, the boundary of the site on which the building is erected, such window
shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of regulations 30 and 31 if-

   (a)  such verandah, balcony, conservatory or similar enclosed place is
        provided with a window which would comply with the requirements of
        regulations 30 and 31 if it were the window of a room having a floor
        area equivalent to the aggregate of the areas of the floors of such
        room and such verandah, balcony, conservatory or similar enclosed
        place, as the case may be; and

   (b)  the area of glass and the opening in the window of such room is such
        that, to that extent, such window would comply with the requirements
        of regulation 30(2)(a) if it were likewise the window of a room having
        a floor area equivalent to the aggregate of the areas of the floors of
        such room and such verandah, balcony, conservatory or similar enclosed
        place. (G.N.A. 83 of 1959; G.N.A. 97 of 1962)