Section 2

“Authority” means the Housing and Town Development Authority constituted under section 3;

“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure or foundation connected to the foregoing;

“buildings or works” includes waste materials, refuse and other matters deposited on land and reference to the erection or construction of buildings or works shall be construed accordingly;

“building operations” includes any building or erectional operations, rebuilding operations, structural alterations of or additions to buildings and other operations normally undertaken by a person carrying on business as a builder and the making of access roads, railways, water works, electrical installations and any road works preliminary or incidental to the erection of buildings;

“Chairman” means Chairman of the Authority;

“Collector” has the same meaning as in the Land Ordinance [Cap. 68.];

“Deputy Chairman” means Deputy Chairman of the Authority;

“functions” includes powers and duties;

“General Manager” means the General Manager appointed under section 20 of the

 In force 1 st January 1982 – See G.N. 86/82.

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Enactment and includes any person for the time being so appointed to perform the duties of the General Manager;

“local authority” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Ordinance 1961

[Ord. 11/61.];

“member” means a member of the Authority including the Chairman and Deputy

Chairman;

“Minister” means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for matters relating to housing and town development.