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'Owner' includes any person holding premises direct from Owner. the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise, and also any person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint tenant or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person; and, where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from the Colony or is under disability, the agent of such owner; and if there is no such agent, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance, every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an owner.
'Person' includes a body corporate, a partnership and Person. an association of persons unincorporated.
'Premises' includes any land, building or structure of Premises. any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered or enclosed, cesspool or foreshore, and also any vessel lying within the waters of the Colony.
'Public building' includes any building, not in occupation Public of the Naval, Military or Air Force Departments, used for building. public worship, public instruction, public assembly or public recreation; and also any building used as an hotel or as a public hall or hospital or for any other public purpose whatsoever.
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'Public latrine' means any latrine to which the public are latrine. admitted on payment or otherwise.
'Refuse' includes dust, dirt, ashes, rubbish, sweepings Refuse. and every other kind of waste matter whatsoever.
'Room' includes any sub-division of any storey of any Room, domestic building other than :-
(a) a cubicle;
(b) a drying-room, store-room, pantry, lobby or landing which is not used for sleeping purposes
'Secretary' and 'Assistant Secretary' mean the Secretary Secretary. and Assistant Secretary of the Council respectively.
'Storey' means the space between the upper surface Storey. of every floor and the upper surface of the floor next above it where such floor exists, but does not include any space which has less height than nine feet.
In the case of a top storey which has a ceiling and the ceiling is horizontal throughout, the space shall be measured from the upper surface of the floor to the underside of the ceiling; if the ceiling is not horizontal throughout the space shall be measured from the upper surface of the floor to a level half way between the wall plate and the underside of the highest portion of the ceiling; if there be no ceiling the space shall be measured from the upper surface of the floor to a level half way between the wall plate and the underside of the apex of the roof.