2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —| “building” includes part of a building; |
| “building used for entertainment” includes any amusement park, theatre, music hall, concert hall, dance hall, bowling alley, skating rink, amusement arcade or pintable saloon; |
| “existing use” means the use to which a building was put on 1st February 1960, or a use approved under section 10 of the Act; |
| “food-shop” means a building used for the carrying on of any trade or business where the primary purpose is the sale by retail of foodstuffs for consumption off the premises and includes premises licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors to be consumed off the premises but does not include a building primarily used as a restaurant; |
| “general industrial building” means an industrial building other than a light industrial building or a special industrial building; |
| “industrial building” means any building used for the making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning, adapting, breaking up or demolishing of any article or part thereof, or the getting, processing or treatment of minerals but does not include a building used as a laundry; |
| “light industrial building” means an industrial building in which the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to the amenity of that area by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit; |
| “office” includes a bank and premises occupied by a ticket agency or travel agency; |
| “restaurant” means a building used for the carrying on of any trade or business where the primary purpose is the sale of foodstuffs for consumption on the premises and includes a bar, coffee shop, eating house or snack bar; |
“shop” means a building used for the carrying on of any trade or business where the primary purpose is the sale of goods by retail and includes a building used as a furniture shop, hairdressing saloon, beauty saloon, departmental store, pawnshop, dispensary or medical and dental clinic but does not include —| (a) | a building used for entertainment, preparation of foodstuffs, sale of animals or birds, sale of coffins, sale of tyres and batteries or repairing and servicing of motorcycles; or | | (b) | a building used as a funfair, market, motor vehicle showroom, petrol filling station, restaurant, veterinary clinic, butcher shop, fishmonger shop, salt-fish shop, laundry, dry-cleaner shop or wholesale shop; |
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| “special industrial building” means an industrial building in which the processes carried on are dangerous or offensive and includes premises requiring licences under section 65 of the Environmental Public Health Act [Cap. 95] or section 30 of the Building Control Act [Cap. 29], other than such premises used primarily for the purpose of storage or sale; |
| “warehouse” means a building (excluding any land occupied therewith) where storage is the principal use and where no business is transacted other than incidentally to such storage. |
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