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A490

Ord. No. 75/88

NOISE CONTROL

"Chairman" means the person appointed as Chairman of the Appeal Board

under section 20(2);

"construction noise permit" means a construction noise permit issued under

section 8(1);

"construction site" means a place where construction work is carried out;

"construction work" includes-

(a) any work in connection with or for the construction, demolition, reconstruction, shoring, alteration, maintenance or repair, of the whole or any part of any building, arch, bridge, chimney, dock, hoarding, shelter, tunnel, wall, pier, wharf or other structure or any road, slope, embankment, street, railway, tramway, airport, channel, drain, service lane, sewer, water conduit, lighting or public utility;

(b) any work in connection with or for the extraction from the earth of

any matter whatsoever;

(c) any work in connection with or for the reclamation of any fore-

shore and sea-bed;

(d) dredging or any work in connection with dredging;

(e) piling or any work in connection with piling;

(f) any work involved in preparing for any operation of the type

referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e); and

(g) the use of machinery, plant, tools, gear and materials in connec- tion with or for any operation referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (ƒ);

"domestic premises" means-

(a) any premises used wholly or mainly for residential purposes and

constituting a separate household unit; and

(b) any part of a hotel or boarding-house that is let by the keeper of

the hotel or boarding-house to a guest;

"functions" includes powers and duties;

"percussive piling" means piling by sinking or driving a pile by direct or indirect hammering or other percussive means, including piling by the use of a drop hammer, diesel hammer, double acting hammer, single acting hammer, internal drop hammer, pneumatic hammer, steam hammer or other percussive device, other than a device that is portable and designed for operation while held by hand without any other form of support;

"pile" means any sheet, column, post, tube or caisson driven or formed in the ground and also means any pile known as a "jacked pile", "screw pile", "cast-in-place pile", "composite pile", "sand pile", "sheet pile”, "bored pile", "caisson pile", and any other form of pile;

"piling" means any work in connection with or for the sinking or forming of

a pile in the ground by hammering, jacking, screwing, augering, boring, jetting, vibrating, casting or any other means and also means the driving or sinking of any casing or tube into the ground to form a well or caisson for foundation purposes, whether or not the casing or tube is later extracted;

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