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(34) "Party wall" means a wall forming part of a Party wall. building and used or constructed to be used in any part of the height or length of such wall for the separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners or occupied or constructed or adapted to be occupied by different persons
(35) "Person" includes a body corporate, a partnership Person. and an association of persons unincorporated.
(36) "Premises" includes any land, building, or structure Premises. of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered or inclosed, cesspool or foreshore also any vessel lying within the waters of the Colony.
(37) "Public Building" includes any building not in Public occupation of the Naval, Military or Air Force Departments, building. used for public worship, public instruction, public assembly or public recreation; and also any building used as an hotel or as a public hall or hospital, or for any other public purpose whatsoever.
(38) "Room" includes any sub-division of any storey Room. of any domestic building other than :-
(a) a cubicle:
(b) a drying-room, store-room, pantry, lobby or landing which is not used for sleeping purposes.
(39) "Storey" means the space between the upper Storey. surface of every floor and the upper surface of the floor next above it where such floor exists, but does not include any space which has less height than nine feet.
In the case of a top storey which has a ceiling and the ceiling is horizontal throughout, the space shall be measured from the upper surface of the floor to the underside of the ceiling; if the ceiling is not horizontal throughout the space shall be measured from the upper surface of the floor to a level half way between the wall plate and the underside of the highest portion of the ceiling; if there be no ceiling the space shall be measured from the upper surface of the floor to a level half way between the wall plate and the underside of the apex of the roof.
(40) "Street" includes the whole or any part of any Street. square, court or alley, highway, lane, road, road-bridge, footpath, or passage whether a thoroughfare or not.
(41) "Tenant" means any person who holds direct from Tenant. any householder the whole or any part of any floor or floors of any building.
(42) "Tenement-house" means any domestic building Tenement--- constructed, used, or adapted to be used for human habitation house. by more than one tenant.
(43) "Verandah" means any stage, platform, or portico Verandah. projecting from a main wall of any building and supported by piers or columns.
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