(1) Subject to any other law requiring a greater number of sanitary fittings, every residential, institutional, business or public building, categorized in Table I, shall be provided with atleast the number of sanitary fittings shown in Table I, and, in addition, the requirements of the following subsections shall be compiled with.

(2) Rooms provided in buildingd other than dwellings, in which sanitary fittings are installed which are intended for the use of more than one more person at ant time, shall be restricted to one sex only.

(3) Whenever water-closet compartments or bathrooms are provided in a building other than a dwellings, and each such compartment or bathroom forms part of a room, then each such compartment or bathroom shall be fitted with an opaque door capable of closing the door-aperture to a height of not less than two metres may be left between the bottom of such door and the floor:

Provided that the local authority may, in its discretion, permit the omission of the door to such compartment or bathroom.

(4) Where any bedroom is provided with its own sanitary fittings, such fittings and the persons served thereby shall not be taken into account when the number of such fittings, required by Table I to be installed, is determined.

(5) Unless written exemption is obtained from the local authority, every place of assembly as defined in Chapter 11, to which access is provided for physically handicapped people, shall be provided with at least one water-closet compartment for each sex for use by physically handicapped people either separately or within other toilet accommodation, and the following requirements shall be compiled with in respect of each compartment-

a) the compartment shall be accessible by lift or ramp having a slope not exceeding 1 in 12 from the place of assembly;

b) the width of the entrance door to the compartment shall be not less than 870 millimetres and shall open outwards;

c) the width of the compartment shall be not less than 1350 millimetres;

d) a firm horizontal bar shall be provided 900 millimetres from ground-level either on the wall immediately adjacent to the water-closet or as attachment to the pan; and

e) all handles and locking devices to doors shall be fitted 900 millimetres from ground-level.