SCHEDULES to which the foregoing Act refers. Containing a Description of the ACTS and PARTS of Acts repealed by this Act. Date of Act. 1st.-14 Geo. III. c. 78. (1774). 2d.-50 Geo. III. c. 75. (1810.) 3d.-3 & 4 Vict. c. 85. (1840.) Title of Act. An Act for the further and better Regulation of Buildings and Party Walls, and for the more effectually preventing Mischiefs by Fire, within the Cities of London and Westminster and the liberties thereof, and other the parishes, precincts, and places within the weekly bills of mortality, the parishes of Saint Mary-le-bon, Paddington, Saint Pancras, and Saint Luke at Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex; and for indemnifying, under certain conditions, builders and other persons against the penalties to which they are or may be liable for erecting buildings within the limits aforesaid contrary to law. An Act to amend an Act of the Fourteenth Year of his present Majesty, for the better Regulation of Buildings and Party Walls, and for the more effectually preventing Mischiefs by Fire, within the Cities of London and Westminster, by permitting John's patent tessera to be used in covering of houses and buildings within the places therein mentioned. An Act for the Regulation of Chimney Sweepers and Chin neys. Extent of Repeal. Wholly; except so far as any such Act may repeal any other Act, either wholly or partly; and except as to offences committed, penalties incurred, and fees payable, and any proceedings taken or commenced, or which might be taken or commenced under the said Act, on or before the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five; and except the whole of the several sections of the said Act which relate to the keeping of fire engines and ladders and firecocks (§ 74, 75), and to the fees or rewards to turncocks and engine keepers ($76), and to the payment of such rewards or fees (§ 77, 78), and to the providing of engines by parishes ($ 80, 81), and to the payment of the expenses and rewards out of the poor rates (§ 81), and to the exemption of Watermen and others from impressment, or the liability to serve either as mariners or as soldiers (§ 82), and to the application of insurance money on houses burnt (§ 83), and to the punishment of servants for carelessly firing a house (§ 84), and to the attendance of peace and parish officers at fires (§ 85), and to legal proceedings in respect of accidental fires (§ 86); and any other part of the said Act, so far as it is necessary for giving full effect to the respective purposes of such several unrepealed sections. Wholly (a.) So much thereof as relates to the construction and regulation of chimneys and flues within the limits of this Act. (a) See 1 Phillips, Rep. 306. Viscount Canterbury v. The Attorney General. SCHEDULE (B.)-(See § 5 & 7.) PART I. LIST of BUILDINGS, of whatever Class, placed under special Bridges, embankment walls, retaining walls, and wharf and And her Majesty's royal palaces, and any building being in the possession of her Majesty, her heirs and successors, or employed for her Majesty's use or service: And any common gaols, prisons, houses of correction, and places of confinement under the inspection of the inspectors of prisons, and Bethlem Hospital and the House of Occupations adjoining : And the Mansion House, Guildhall, and the Royal Exchange of the City of London: And the offices and buildings of the Governor and Company 39 & 40 Geo. of the Bank of England already erected, and which now 3, c. lxxxix. form the edifice called "The Bank of England," and any offices and buildings hereafter to be erected for the use of the said governor and company either on the site of or in addition to and in connexion with the said edifice: And the buildings of the British Museum already erected or to be erected for the like purposes: cxiii. And the erections and buildings authorized by an act passed 9 Geo. 4, c. And the warehouses of or belonging to the Saint Katharine And all other buildings exempted by any act of Parliament PART II. LIST of BUILDINGS, of whatever Class, exempted from Supervision. 6 Geo. 4, c. cv. And the warehouses of or belonging to the Saint Katharine Dock Company, and situate in the parish of Saint Botolphwithout-Aldgate, and in the precinct of Saint Katharine, near the Tower of London, in the county of Middlesex : And the warehouses and buildings of or belonging to the London Dock Company, comprehended within the wall of the said Company, as set forth in an act passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth: 9 Geo. 4, c. cxvi. s. 99. 1 & 2 Vict. c. ix. 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. xxxvi., and 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. lvi. s. 126. And the several warehouses and buildings of or belonging to And the buildings erected or to be erected by the London And the buildings and structures belonging to any other SCHEDULE (C.)—PART I.—(See § 5.) RULES for determining the CLASSES and RATES to which buildings are to be deemed to belong for the purposes of this act, and the thicknesses of the walls of buildings of such rates. Classes of Buildings. For the purposes of this act, all buildings of whatever kind, subject to the provisions thereof, are to be deemed to belong to one or other of the following three classes; that is to say, First Class. If a building be built originally as a dwelling-house, or be occupied or intended to be occupied as such, then it is to be deemed to belong to the first or dwelling-house class. Second Class. If a building be built originally as a warehouse, storehouse, granary, brewery, distillery, manufactory, workshop, or stable, or be occupied or intended to be occupied as such, or for a similar purpose, then it is to be deemed to belong to the second or warehouse class. Third Class. If a building be built originally as a church, chapel, or other place of public worship, college, hall, hospital, theatre, public concert room, public ball room, public lecture room, public exhibition room, or occupied or intended to be occupied as such, or for a similar purpose, or otherwise used or intended to be used, either temporarily or permanently, for the assemblage of persons in large numbers, whether for publie worship, business, instruction, debate, diversion, or resort, then it is to be deemed to belong to the third or public building class. Alteration of Class. And if any room, whether constructed within any other building or not, and whether included in the aforesaid classes or not, be used at any time for the public or general congregation of persons, then the building containing such room is to be deemed a building of the third or public building class. Or if a building originally built, or subsequently altered so as to bring it within any one class, be subsequently converted into or used as a building of another class, then it is to be deemed to belong to such other class; and as to it all the conditions prescribed with regard to buildings of the same rate of such other class must be fulfilled as if it had been originally built of such class, subject nevertheless to such modifications as shall be sanctioned by the official referees on a special supervision thereof. r if a building be used partly as a dwelling-house and partly for any purpose which would bring it within the second or warehouse class, then it is to be deemed to belong to the said second or warehouse class; and as to all the conditions prescribed with regard to buildings of the same rate of such class must be fulfilled as if it had been originally built of such class, subject nevertheless to such modifications as shall be sanctioned by the official referees on a special supervision thereof. Rates of Buildings. And the buildings included in the said classes are to be deemed to belong to the rates of those classes, according to the conditions of height, area, and number of stories set forth in the following Tables; which conditions are to be determined according to the following rules : Rule for ascertaining Height. The height of every building is to be ascertained by And if there be no tie-beam, collar-beam, or other Rule for ascertaining Area. And the area of every building is to be determined by the number of squares contained in the surface of any floor which shall contain the greatest number of squares at or above the principal entrance to such building, including in such surface the area of all the external walls, and such portions of the party |