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(6) "Build" includes carry on works.

Build.

(7) "Building" includes any part of a domestic building, Building. house, school, shop, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, pawnshop, warehouse, godown, place of secure stowage, verandah, balcony, kitchen, latrine, gallery, chimney, arch, bridge, stair, column, floor, out-house, stable, shed, pier, wharf, fence, wall, roof, covered way, canopy. kiosk, sunshade, garage, well, piling, septic tank, cow-shed and hoarding.

(8) "Building Authority" means the Director of Public Building Works or such other person as the Governor in Council Authority. appoint to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.

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(9) "Building owner' means such one of the owners of Building adjoining land who is desirous of building, or such one of the owner. 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.

(10) "Building works" includes any building construc- Building tion, site formation, repairs, alterations, additions and every works. kind of building operation whatsoever.

(11) "Cement" means Portland Cement.

Cement,

(12) "Cockloft" includes any floor other than a ground Cockloft. 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.

(13) Cross wall" means any wall not exposed to the Cross outer air other than a partition wall, used or constructed to wall. be used for separation of one part of any building from another part of the same building.

(14) "Dangerous building" means a building in such a Dangerous condition as to cause risk of injury either to the occupiers or building. users of such building or to the occupiers or users of any neighbouring building, or to passengers.

(15) "Domestic building" means any building con- Domestic structed, used, or adapted to be used, wholly or partly, for building. human habitation, but does not include any building where caretakers only, not exceeding two in number, pass the night.

(16) "Exceptional building" includes (i) every public Exceptional building, factory, workshop, bakery, brewery, distillery, building. pawnshop, every building intended for special uses, every building made wholly or partly of reinforced 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.

(17) "External air" means the air of any space which External is vertically open to the sky and unobstructed and which, air. (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) hos A

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