Cap. 10 чл. 100Applicability of certain provisions of s.97 to houses constructed before 1st January, 1880.

(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, whenever 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 Public 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 four 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 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, should it exceed the expense actually incurred.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Public Health at any time to order any of the provisions 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, unless the observance of such provisions is dispensed with by the sanitary authority.