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Buildings.

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; "street" includes the whole or any part of any square, court or alley, highway, lane, road, road-bridge, footpath, or passage whether a thoroughfare or not; "tenant" means any person who holds direct from any householder the whole or any part of any floor or floors of any building;

"tenement-house" means any domestic building constructed, used, or adapted to be used for human habitation by more than one tenant;

"verandah" means any stage, platform, or portico projecting from a main wall of any building and supported by piers or columns;

"wall" includes cross wall, external wall, main wall, partition wall, party wall, and every other kind of wall whether supporting any structure or not;

or

"water closet" means latrine accommodation used

adapted or intended to be used in connexion 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, when opened, of also admitting air;

total constructing, the partial or reconstructing, pulling down, opening, cutting into, adding to, and altering any building, retaining wall, chimney-stack, flue, ground, road, well, drain, sewer, and any other building operation whatsoever.

"works"

includes

PART II-DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.

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and safety

3. (1) Every person who is about to erect or take Hoardings down any building shall, before commencing to erect or platforms, take down such building, cause to be put up and maintained etc.

scaffolding,

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58 of 1936, s.6.