Street.
Tenant.
Tenement.
Tenement house.
Urban District.
Verandah.
Vessel.
Water closet.
Window.
Working class tenement house.
Works.
Workshop.
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'Street' includes the whole or any part of any square, court, alley, highway, lane, road, road-bridge, foot-path or passage whether a thoroughfare or not.
'Tenant' includes any person who holds direct from any householder the whole or any part of any floor or floors of any building.
"Tenement' means an apartment consisting of one or more rooms or cubicles let separately from the rest of the house.
"Tenement house' means any domestic building construct- ed, used or adapted to be used for human habitation by more than one tenant.
'Urban District' includes the City of Victoria, Kowloon, New Kowloon and any such area as the Governor in Council may define and notify in the Gazette.
'Verandah' means any stage, platform or portico pro- jecting from a main wall of any building and supported by piers or columns.
'Vessel' means any steam, motor or sailing ship, launch, motor boat, junk, lighter, sampan or boat.
'Water closet' means latrine accommodation used or adapted or intended to be used in connection with a water carriage system and comprising provision for the flushing of the receptacle by a water supply.
'Window' means a structure placed in an opening in the wall of a building and consisting of sashes hinged to or sliding within a framework of wood, metal, brick or cement, so arranged as to admit light and capable also, when opened, of admitting air.
'Working class tenement house' means a house divided into tenements for the accommodation of persons of the labouring, artisan or mechanical classes.
'Works' includes the partial or total constructing, recon- structing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to and altering any building, wall, retaining wall, chimney-stack, flue, ground, road, well, drain or sewer, and any other building operation whatsoever.
'Workshop' means any premises or place other than a factory wherein or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for the purpose of gain in or incidental to making any article or part of an article, or altering or repairing or ornamenting or finishing or adapting for sale any article, provided that at least twenty persons are employed in manual labour in the said premises or in the close, curtilage or precincts thereof.
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