1964_BUILDING_(REFUSE_STORAGE_CHAMBERS_AND_CHUTES)_REGULATIONS — Page 3

1984 Ed.] Building (Refuse Storage Chambers and

Chutes) Regulations

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"refuse container" means a receptacle in which refuse is intended to

be stored;

"school" means a building constructed or intended to be used principally for the purpose of primary, secondary or tertiary education and includes a building used wholly for the provision of a day nursery, kindergarten, play group, play school or otherwise for the day-time care and education of children and a building used principally for other full-time education;

"soil fitment" has the meaning assigned to it by the Building (Standards of Sanitary Fitments, Plumbing, Drainage Works and Latrines) Regulations;

"storage chamber” means a chamber in which a refuse container is

stored;

"storage chamber with vehicular access” means a storage chamber to which vehicular access is provided adequate for the ingress and egress of a refuse collection vehicle of a type customarily used by the collection authority;

"usable floor space" means any floor space other than staircases, staircase halls, lift landings, the space used in providing water closet fitments, urinals and lavatory basins and the space occupied by machinery for any lift, air-conditioning system or similar service.

3. (1) Every plan relating to a building of a description, or 2 or more buildings both or all of which are of the same description, specified in the first column of the Schedule with a total floor area specified opposite that description of building in the second column thereof shall show provision for a storage chamber of the description specified opposite that floor area in the third column and such storage chamber shall have a total floor space of not less than that specified opposite that storage chamber in the fourth column thereof.

(2) In the case of a plan relating to 2 or more buildings falling within 2 or more of the descriptions specified in the first column of the Schedule, paragraph (1) shall apply as if those buildings were comprised in a single composite building and the plan related to that composite building.

(3) This regulation shall not apply to a building constructed or adapted for use principally as a church, a school, an industrial building or a car park.

4. Where a storage chamber is provided in any building it shall be so designed as to comply with the requirements of regula- tions 5 to 12.

5. (1) Every storage chamber shall be of a design approved by the Building Authority and in such location approved by the Building Authority as to provide ready access thereto for the purpose of removing any refuse container stored in such storage chamber.

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[Subsidiary]

Storage chambers to be provided for in plans relating to buildings specified in the

Schedule.

Schedule.

Storage chambers to comply with regulations 5 to 12.

Access to storage chambers for emptying refuse containers.