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wall, warehouse, wharf, or workshop and such other structures as the Building Authority may by notice in the Gazette declare to be a building;

“Building Authority” means the Director of Public Works;

“building owner” means a person desiring to build a new building or to alter an existing building and shall include the agent and authorized architect of a building owner;

“building works” includes any kind of building construction, site formation, repairs, demolition, alteration, addition and every kind of building operation, and includes drainage works;

“dangerous building” means any building in such a condition as to cause risk of injury either to the occupiers or users of such building or to the occupiers or users of any neighbouring building or to the general public;

“new building” means any building hereafter erected and also any existing building of which not less than one half measured by volume is rebuilt or which is altered to such an extent as to necessitate the reconstruction of not less than one half of the superficial area of the main walls;

“occupier” means in the case of domestic buildings a person resident therein and in the case of other buildings means a person carrying on an occupation full-time in such building;

“owner” includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown whether under lease, licence or otherwise, any mortgagee in possession and any person receiving the rent of any premises, solely or with another, on his own behalf or that of any person, or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant, and where such owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from the Colony or is under disability, the agent of such owner;

“registered contractor” means any person whose name is for the time being on the register of registered building contractors maintained under section 6;

“regulations” mean rules and regulations made under this Ordinance;