Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10), article 100

100. (1) The provisions contained in article 97(1)( f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (m) and ( n)(vii) shall apply also to houses existing before the first of January, eighteen hundred and eighty. (2) The provisions of paragraph ( e) of the said article, shall likewise apply to such houses, wh enever the rooms or the stairs can, without being entirely demolished, be made to conform to those provisions, and the cost, in the opinion of an architect appointed by the Director of Publ ic Works, does not exceed the rent or the letting value of the tenement for one year; in any such case the owner may carry out the necessary work over a period of fou r years, provided the work can be so divided, and in each year he performs as much of it as can be done with at least one-fourth of the rent or letting value, commencing and prosecuting the work 18 CAP. 10.] CODE OF POLICE LAWS according to the directions of the said architect: Provided that the owner may demand that the work be carried out by the Director of Public Works, upon paying to the latter in advance a sum equal to the estimate made by the said architect, without any obligation to pay any supplement, should that sum prove insufficient, or any right to reimbursement, sho uld it exceed the expense actually incurred. (3) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Public Health a t any time to order any of the pro visions of sub-articles (1) and (2) and of any regulations made under article 102 to apply, as far as may be practicable, to any house or part of a house referred to therein. (4) The provisions contained in article 97, with the exception of sub-article (1)( l) thereof, shall apply to such houses, so far as regards any part thereof which may have to be reconstructed, un less the observance of such provisions is dispensed with by the sani tary authority. Rules as to houses constructed after 1st January, 1880. Added by: XVI.1931.22. Amended by: XXIX.1935.4.