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access only to buildings used or intended to be used wholly or mainly for purposes of habitation, and which is not a street: "contraventions of the provisions of this Ordinance" includes failure to comply with any order given or any condition imposed by the Building Authority under the provisions of this Ordinance and any material divergence or deviation from any plan approved by him;
"drain" means a drain used for the drainage of one building
and any buildings and yards appurtenant thereto; "drainage works" means any work connected with the con- struction, repair, alteration, disconnexion, trapping and ventilation of drains or sewers;
"escalator works" means any work, not being building works, for the installation of a new escalator and the machinery and equipment connected therewith and any work, not being building works, for the alteration of an escalator, other than the replacement of any part of the escalator or the machinery or equipment connected therewith by a part of similar design:
"frontagers" means, in the case of a private street the owners of premises fronting, joining or abutting on such street, and in the case of an access road the owners of premises to which such road provides access:
"life" means a lift to which this Ordinance is, by regulations. made to apply and has the meaning assigned to it by regulations:
"lift works" means any work, not being building works, for the installation of a new lift and the machinery and equipment connected therewith and any work, not being building works, for the alteration of a lift or the machinery or equipment connected therewith, other than the replace- ment of any part of the lift or the machinery or equipment connected therewith by a part of similar design, "plan" includes drawings, details, diagrams, calculations,
structural details and structural calculations;
"private street" means a street on land held under lease. licence or otherwise from the Crown or on land over which the Crown has granted a right of way:
"registered escalator contractor" means any person whose name is for the time being on the register of escalator con- tractors maintained under section 6;
"registered lift contractor" means any person whose name is for the time being on the register of lift contractors maintained under section 6;
"sewer" does not include a drain as defined in this section, but includes all sewers and drains used for the drainage of more than one building and any buildings and yards appurtenant thereto;"; and
(c) the deletion, at the end of the definition "street" of the full stop and the substitution therefor of a semicolon; and the addition, at the end thereof, of the following definition-
" "street works" means any work for the construction, forma- tion or laying out of any private street or access road, including the surfacing, channelling, draining and lighting thereof, or for the reconstruction, alteration or repair thereof.".
3. Part I of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by Repeal and the following
Register of Authorized Architects.
(Cap. 123).
"PART 1.
Authorized Architects, Registered Contractors, Registered Lift Contractors and Registered Escalator Contractors.
3. (1) The Building Authority shall keep a register (hereinafter referred to as the architects' register) of all persons who are qualified to perform the duties of an authorized architect in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, and shall publish a list of such persons annually in the Gazette.
(2) Every applicant for inclusion in the architects' register shall submit his application in the prescribed form to the Building Authority,
(3) The Building Authority may appoint a Committee to be known as the Architects' Registration Committee 10 assist him in his consideration of such applications.
(4) No person shall be included in the architects" register unless he has the qualifications prescribed by regulations:
Provided that any person who is at the date of the coming into operation of this Ordinance registered as an authorized architect under the provisions of the Buildings Ordinance shall be deemed to be registered as if he had duly applied for and obtained registration under this section.
replacement of Part 1.