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BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS, 1956
"imposed load" means load her than dead load and includes
wind pressure;
"incombustible material" means a material which neither burns nor gives off inflammable vapours in sufficient quantity to ignite at a pilot flame when heated in the manner specified in the appropriate provisions of British Standard Specifica- tion 476:1932 and "combustible material" shall be construed accordingly;
"lateral support" in relation to a wall or pier means support which resists movement in the direction of the thickness of the wall or in the direction of the thickness or width of a pier;
"load bearing" in relation to any part of a building (including the foundation) means any such part bearing a load other than that due to its own weight and to wind pressure on its own surface;
“Ordinance" means the Buildings Ordinance, 1955-
**partition wall" means any internal wall not being a dividing
wall, external wall or party wall;
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"party wall" means a wall forming part of a building and used or constructed to be used for the separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners or occupied or constructed or adapted to be occupied by different persons; "prestressed concrete' means concrete in which predetermined stresses are induced to counteract the stresses due to dead and imposed load for the purpose of eliminating or decreasing the tensile stresses in concrete due to bending and shear: "public building" means a building used or intended to be used either ordinarily or occasionally as a place of public worship or for instruction other than a place so used and being part of a domestic building, a hospital, a restaurant having a seating capacity for more than 100 persons, a place of public entertainment or a place of public assembly to which persons are admitted by ticket or otherwise;
"reinforced concrete" means concrete not inferior to the design- ated Grade III in regulation 19, reinforced by reinforcement complying with the provisions of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 77;
BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS, 1956
"shell lime" means lime formed by burning sea shells or other
like marine calcium deposits;
"storey-height" for the purposes of regulations 57-60 means the height of that part of a wall or pier which is between thự level of one lateral support and the level of the latera! support next above or (if there is no such lateral support above) the top of such wall or pier.
shall-
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All materials used in the construction of any building Materials.
(a) be of a suitable nature and quality for the purposes for
which they are used;
(b) be adequately mixed or prepared; and
(c) be applied, used or fixed so as adequately to perform the
functions for which they are designed.
British
4. The Building Authority may permit in writing subject British to such conditions as he may endorse thereon the use of any Specifica
Standard type of material or any method of mixing or preparing materials tion or or of applying using or fixing materials which conforms with ย Stander! British Standard Specification or a British Standard Code of Code of
Practice. Practice prescribing the quality of material or standards of workmanship:
Provided that in the event of more than one such Standard or Code having been issued, the type of material or method used conforms with the latest edition and any published amendments thereto.
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Every building shall be so constructed as to be capable Per- of sustaining safely and transmitting all the dead and imposed missible load without exceeding the appropriate limitations of permissible to be,
stresses.
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stresaca not
excreded.
Where load is transmitted through plain concrete, Dispersion brickwork or other similar material, the angle of dispersion of of load. the load through that material shall be taken as not more than 45 degrees with the direction of the load.
7. No building shall be subjected to load beyond its proper Over- bearing capacity :
loading.
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