1984 Ed.]
Building (Planning) Regulations
[CAP. 123
disabled persons" means persons who, on account of injury, disease, or congenital deformity, are substantially handicapped in walking;
"external wall" means an outer wall of a building not being a party wall, even though adjoining a wall of another building;
"factory" means any building or place in which any machinery, other than machinery worked entirely by hand, is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such building or place; "floor" means any structure forming the base of any storey and every joist, board, timber, brick, concrete or other substance connected with and forming part of such structure;
"latrine" means a privy, commode or earth closet but does not include a water closet or a water flushed urinal:
"open air" means a space which-
(a) is vertically uncovered and unobstructed;
(b) is not less, in any horizontal dimension, than 1.5 m; and
(c) where such space is enclosed on 4 sides, has a horizontal area of not less than 1 m2 for every 6 m of the mean height of the walls enclosing the space:
"Ordinance" means the Buildings Ordinance:
"permitted plot ratio" means the maximum plot ratio permitted under paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, of regulation 21; "place of public entertainment" means a place of public entertainment within the meaning of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance;
"prescribed" means prescribed by or under the Ordinance: "road" means a street not including any footpath;
"room" means any portion of a building which has been subdivided by the erection of partition walls from floor to ceiling; "semi-detached building" means any one of a pair of buildings connected to each other by a party wall and has a clear and unobstructed open space-
(a) extending the entire depth of the building of not less than 2.3 m measured at right angles to the external surface of the building;
(b) in the rear of the building of a depth of 2.3 m measured at right angles to the external surface of the building and extending for the full width of the site;
"site coverage" means the area of the site that is covered by the building that is erected thereon and, when used in relation to a part of a composite building, means the area of the site on which the building is erected that is covered by that part of the building;
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[Subsidiary]
L.N. 365/84. (*In operation ON 1.8.85]
GNA. 83/59. L.N. 294/76
(Cap. 123.)
G.N.A. 97/60.
L.N. 365/84. ["In operation on 1.8.85.]
(Cap. 172.)
G.N.A. 83/59.
L.N. 294/76.
G.N.A. 97/62.
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