means a storey or part of a storey partly below the ground level, the ceiling of which is not less than 5 feet above the level of the adjoining ground irrespective of any excavations made for the purpose of complying with these Regulations;

means the building surveyor of the town, or his or her assistant, or any person duly authorised by the Board to act as building surveyor or assistant building surveyor;

means a storey or part of a storey, or a room below or partly below the ground level, the ceiling of which is less than 5 feet above the level of the adjoining ground;

means the Town Clerk appointed by any Council;

includes earth-closet, water-closet, urinal and every place for the reception of faecal matter;

means a building used or constructed or adapted to be used wholly or in part for commercial purposes;

means the town council of a town;

means a building used, constructed or adapted to be used wholly or in part for human habitation, but does not include any portion of a commercial building not used, constructed or adapted to be used for human habitation;

means an outer wall of a building not being a party wall, even although adjoining a wall of another building;

means a room or suite of rooms occupied or designed, intended or adapted to be occupied as a separate domicile;

means any living room and includes any room intended or adapted to be used for the purpose of sleeping or eating or the preparation or cooking of food;

means the measurement taken from the level of the ground at the centre of the front of the building to the ceiling of the highest storey of the building, provided that a parapet not exceeding 10 feet of additional height may be added, provided that bulkheads, lantern lights, pergolas or other open ornamental treatment of roof gardens, or play areas, and space for water tanks or reservoirs, or lift or elevator machinery, and the like, upon the top of a building, shall not, if constructed to a design approved by the Council be taken into account in determining the height of the building;

includes a hotel and any building or part of a house including the verandah thereof, if any, which is let or sublet as lodgings or otherwise, either by storeys, by flats, by rooms or by portions of a room or a verandah;

means a wall (other than an external or party wall) which subdivides any floor of a building and carries any load in addition to its own dead weight;

means a wall subdividing any floor and not carrying any load other than its own dead weight;

means a wall used or built in order to be used as a separation of any building from any other building with a view to such buildings being occupied by different persons;

means a building containing 2 or more flats, but does not include a row of 2 or more dwellings attached to each other such as are commonly known as semi-detached or terrace buildings;

means a building erected for residential purposes, the different parts of which are to be used or intended or adapted to be used or occupied by separate families, or by members of more than one family, or by persons not of one family; and