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Basement.
Build.
Building.
Building Authority.
Building
owner.
Building works,
Cement.
Cockloft.
Crosa wall.
Dangerous building.
Domestic building.
Exceptional building.
External air.
(5) "Basement" means any cellar, vault, or under- ground room or any room any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil to an average height exceeding 2 feet above the floor level.
(6) "Build" includes carry on works.
(7) "Building" includes any part of a domestic building, house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy. kiosk, sunshade, garage, well, piling, septic tank, cow-shed and hoarding.
(8) "Building Authority" means the Director of Public Works or such other person as the Governor in Council may appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.
(9) "Building owner" means such one of the owners of adjoining land who is desirous of building, or such one of the owners of buildings, storeys, or rooms, separated from one another by a party wall or party structure who does or is desirous of doing a work affecting that party wall or party
structure.
(10) "Building works" includes any building construc- tion, site formation, repairs, alterations, additions and every kind of building operation whatsoever.
(11) "Cement" means Portland Cement.
(12) "Cockloft" includes any floor other than a ground floor, and any platform or landing of a greater breadth than three feet and which has not a clear space of nine feet measured vertically above it.
(13) "Cross wall" means any wall not exposed to the outer air other than a partition wall, used or constructed to be used for separation of one part of any building from another part of the same building.
(14) "Dangerous building" means a building in such a condition as to cause risk of injury either to the occupiers or users of such building or to the occupiers or users of any neighbouring building, or to passengers.
(15) "Domestic building" means any building con- structed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or partly, for human habitation, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night.
(16) "Exceptional building" includes (1) every public building, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of reinforced concrete, every building made wholly or partly of glass, iron or other material not provided for in this Ordinance, and (ii) every part of every building which is an exceptional building within the meaning of the first part of this paragraph.
(17) "External air" means the air of any space which is vertically open to the sky and unobstructed and which, (when measured from and at right angles to the external
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surface of a wall, or where there is a verandah or balcony when measured from the external surface of such verandab or balcony), has a dimension of not less than thirteen feet throughout the extent of any window opening in such wall, and which (when measured parallel to the external surface of such wall, verandah or balcony and in a horizontal direction) has a dimension of not less than seven feet.
wall.
(18) "External Wall" means an outer wall of any part External of any building not being a party wall, even though adjoining to a wall of another building but does include any outer wall of a verandah projecting over a street.
(19) "Factory" means any premises or place wherein Factory. or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any machinery other than machinery worked entirely by hand is used in aid of any industrial undertaking carried on in such premises or place.
(20) "Floor" includes any horizontal platform forming Floor. the base of any storey, and every joist, board, timber, stone. brick, or other substance, connected with and forming part of such platform.
(21) "Hill-side" means the face of the natural hill, or Hill-side. the face of any scarp or retaining wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in or terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining wall, made with the object of support- ing a street or forming a site for a building.
(22) "Hill District" means any part of the island of Hill Hong Kong above the 700-feet contour.
District.
Point
(23) "Kowloon Point District" means that portion of Kowloon Kowloon bounded on the South by Salisbury Road, on the District. North by Jordan Road and Gascoigne Road, on the East by Chatham Road and on the West by Nathan Road.
(24) "Latrine" includes privy, pail latrine, water closet Latrine. and urinal.
(25) Latrine accommodation" includes a receptacle Latrine for human excreta, together with the structure comprising accommoda- such receptacle and the fittings and the apparatus connected therewith.
tion.
(26) "Main wall" means either an external or a party Main wall. wall.
(27) "Mid-level District" means that portion of the City Mid-level of Victoria which is situated on the southern or south-eastern District. boundary of a dividing line beginning from a point on the Pokfulam Road at No. 1 Bridge and passing along Pokfulam Road, High Street, Bonham Road and Caine Road as far as Ladder Street to Wing Lee Street, thence along Wing Lee Street and Po Wa Street and bisecting Inland Lot 94, thence along the Northern boundary of Inland Lots 100, 1086, 122 and 123, thence along Shelley Street and the northern boundary of Inland Lot 125 to Old Bailey, thence along Chancery Lane, Chancery Lane Steps, Wyndham Street, Lower Albert Road and Ice House Street, thence along Queen's Road Central and Queen's Road East to the Eastern boundary of War Department land, thence along the Western boundary of Inland Lots 47A, 47 and 1211 until this line produced meets Monmouth Path, thence in a straight line to
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