Hong Kong Regulations

BUILDING (STANDARDS OF SANITARY FITMENTS, PLUMBING, DRAINAGE WORKS AND LATRINES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 88

Power of Building Authority to permit door of latrine to open onto or opening required by regulation 82 to communicate with unenclosed verandah, etc.

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), the Building Authority may,
where he thinks fit, permit the door of a latrine not fitted with a
chemical closet fitment or the opening required by regulation 82, to open onto
or communicate with, as the case may be, an unenclosed verandah or balcony or
any other unenclosed space, if such verandah, balcony or other space-

   (a)  in the case of the door of a latrine, opens directly to the open air;
        and

   (b)  in the case of the opening required by regulation 82, communicates
        with the open air, and, in any such case, such door or opening shall,
        for the purposes of regulations 81 and 82, respectively, be deemed to
        open directly into or communicate with the open air.

(2) The Building Authority shall not give his permission under this regulation
unless he is satisfied that to do so will not be to the prejudice of the
standard of lighting or ventilation or the health of the occupiers of the
building for which the latrine is provided.