Wall.
Water closet.
Window.
Works.
List of authorised architects.
Consent of Building Authority required in connection with all new works. Schedule A.
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(44) "Wall" includes cross wall, external wall, main wall, partition wall party wall, and every other kind of wall whether supporting any structure or not.
(45) "Water closet" means latrine accommodation used or adapted or intended to be used in connection with a water carriage system and comprising provision for the flushing of the receptacle by a water supply.
(46) "Window" means a structure placed in an opening in the wall of a building and consisting of sashes hinged to or sliding within a framework of wood, metal, brick or cement, so arranged as to admit light and capable, when opened, of also admitting air.
(47) "Works" includes the partial or total constructing, reconstructing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building. retaining wall, chimney-stack, flue, ground, road, well, drain, sewer, and any other building operation whatsoever.
Authorised Architects.
5.-(1) The Clerk of Councils shall publish annually by notification in the Gazette a list of all such architects, engineers and other persons as the Governor in Council may deem qualified to perform the duties required by this Ordinance to be performed by an authorised architect. Such list shall include the names of the Director of Public Works and of such other officers of the Public Works Depart- ment as the Governor in Council may think fit. The Clerk of Councils shall from time to time similarly publish the names of persons added to or removed from the last published annual list by Order of the Governor in Council. The last published list as so amended shall be deemed the current authorised list.
(2) The Governor in Council shall not order the insertion of the name of any person in any such list unless he deems him in all respects fit and suitable to be authorised.
(3) The Governor in Council may by order remove the name of any authorised architect who has ceased to practice in the Colony, he may also, on any ground which he may deem sufficient, remove the name of any person he may consider unfit or unsuitable to continue to be authorised; but in such last mentioned case notice shall be given, if practic- able, to the person whose name it is proposed to remove and he shall be entitled to be heard by the Governor in Council, either in person or by counsel, before such removal is made.
Plans, Drawings and Notices.
6.-(1) It shall not be lawful to commence any building works without the consent of the Building Authority and the following procedure shall be adopted :---
(a) Notice in writing in or according to the form contained in Schedule A of the intention to commence any building works shall be given to the Building Authority by leaving the same at his office. Every such notice shall clearly state the locality of the intended building works and the number and section or sub-section of the lot on which it is