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Building
owner.
Cemeat.
Cockloft.
Cross wall.
Dangerous huilding,
Domestic building.
Exceptional building.
External air.
External wall.
Factory.
Floor.
Hill-side.
Hill
District,
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(8) 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.
(9) "Cement" means Portland Cement.
(10) 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.
(11) "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.
(12) "Dangerous building" means a building in such a condition as to cause risk of injury either to the oc- cupiers of such building or to the occupiers of any neighbouring building, or to passengers.
(13) 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.
(14) "Exceptional building" includes (i) every public building factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, dis- tillery, pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of rein- forced 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.
(15) "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 surface of a wall, or where there is a verandah or balcony when measured from the external surface of such verandah or balcony, has a dimension of not less than thirteen feet throughout the extent of any window opening in such wall, and 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.
(16) "External Wall" means an outer wall of any part 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.
(17) "Factory" means any premises
or place
wherein 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.
(18) "Floor** includes any horizontal platform forming the base of any storey, and every joist, board, timber stone, brick, or other substance, connected with and forming part of such platform.
(19) "Hili-side" means the face of the natural hill, or the face of any scarp or retaining wall built to support the same, or any artificial filling in ೧೯ terracing with earth behind such scarp or retaining wall, made with the object of supporting a street or forming a site for a building.
(20) Hill District" means any part of the island of Hong Kong above the 700-feet contour, except Chinese villages.
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(21) "Kowloon Point District" means that portion Kowloon of Kowloon bounded on the South by Salisbury Road, Point on the North by Jordan Road and Gascoigne Road, District. on the East by Chatham Road and on the West by Nathan Road.
(22) "Latrine" closet.
includes "privy" but not water Latrine.
(28) "Main wall" means either an external or a Main wall. party wall.
(24) "Mid-level District" means that portion of Mid-level the City of Victoria which is situated on
the District. southern or south-eastern 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 fur 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 the North West corner of Inland Lot 2325, thence in a straight line to the North West corner of Inland Lot 1593 and thence
along Stone Nullab Lane and Kennedy Road, terminating at the junction of Kennedy Road and Queen's Road East. The lateral boundaries to be formed by lines drawn southward from the beginning and termination of the aforesaid dividing line until they meet the Southern boundary of the City of Victoria.
It also includes any such other area ΟΙ any modification of the said area as the Governor-in- Council may define and notify in the Gazette.
(25) New building" includes any building begun New after the 26th February, 1903; and any then existing building. building thereafter or hereafter altered to such an extent as to necessitate the reconstruction of the whole of any two of its main walls or the removal of the roof and the reconstruction of at least one-half
of each of any two of its main walls, whether at the same time or by instalments at different times; and any existing building raised to such an extent that its total height exceeds one and a half times the original height of the building. It also includes the conversion into a domestic building of any building not originally constructed for human habitation, and the conversion into more than one domestic building of a building originally constructed as one domestic building only and any existing building altered in such a manner as to form an additional storey, or the conversion into premises for separate occupation by different for tenants, of any building originally constructed one tenancy.
(26) "Occupier" means any person in actual Occupier. occupation of any premises.
(27) "Owner" includes any person holding premises Owner. direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise and also any person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person: and, where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from the Colony or is under disability, the agent
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