1964_BUILDING_(REFUSE_STORAGE_CHAMBERS_AND_CHUTES)_REGULATIONS — Page 2

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CAP. 123]

Building (Refuse Storage Chambers and Chutes) Regulations

[1984 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

L.N. 154/84.

BUILDING (REFUSE STORAGE CHAMBERS AND CHUTES)

REGULATIONS

(Cap. 123, section 38)

L~441/40.

Citation.

Interpretation.

(Cap. 123, sub. leg.)

(Cap. 123. sub, leg.)

[1 January 1985.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Building (Refuse Storage Chambers and Chutes) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "aggregate usable floor space" in relation to a composite building means the aggregate of the usable floor space of the domestic building component of that composite building and one third of the usable floor space of the non-domestic building component of that composite building;

"approved" means approved by the Building Authority;

"church" means a building constructed or intended to be used

principally for the purpose of religious worship;

"collection authority" means-~~-~

(a) in respect of the urban areas, the Urban Council; and

(b) in respect of the New Territories (excluding New Kowloon),

the Director of Urban Services;

"external wall" means an outer wall of a building not being a party

wall, even though adjoining a wall of another building;

"floor area" means-

(a) in relation to a composite building, the aggregate usable

floor space; or

(b) in relation to any other building, the usable floor space; "foul water" has the meaning assigned to it by the Building (Standards of Sanitary Fitments, Plumbing, Drainage Works and Latrines) Regulations;

"hopper" means the fitment on a refuse chute into which refuse is

placed and from which it is projected into the chute;

“industrial building" means-

(a) a godown; or

(b) a building in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are trans- formed;

"open air" has the meaning assigned to it by the Building (Planning)

Regulations;

"plan" means a plan submitted to the Building Authority for

approval under section 14 of the Ordinance;