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In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -
"apartment"
means a unit as defined in the apartment ownership Law No. 11 of 1973.
"accepted
codes of practice" means codes, standards or manuals acceptable to the Urban
Development Authority.
"access" means any street used as means
of access to building or other premises where the public have a right of way or
not;
"air conditioning" means the process of treating air so as
to control simultaneously its temperature, humidity, purity, distribution, and
movement to meet the requirement of the air-conditioning space
"air
change" means the rate of air entering or leaving a space by natural or mechanical
means in terms of the number of volumes of the space:
"air well"
means any space within or out side the building for the purpose of obtaining natural
light & ventilation. Out side the building is the space within that lot of land,
enclosed by one or more faces of such building or one or more boundaries of such
lot.
"amendment plan" means a plan showing any deviation from or
amendment of or addition to an approved plan of a building, or any land subdivion
for the occupation of which a certificate of conformity has not been issued.
"approved"
means approved by the Urban Development Authority or the relevant Local Authority,
under the authority delegated by UDA.
"approved on a temporary permit"
means approved for such limited period as may be specified by the UDA or any Local
Authority in the permit issued in granting such approval;
"approved
plan" means a plan of a building or any building works or any land subdivision
approved by the UDA or the Local Authority in accordance with the Law and the
Regulations;
"authority" means the Urban Development Authority
and includes any Authority or officer authorised by the Chairman with the approval
of the Board of Management generally or specially to exercise the powers, functions
and duties conferred by these Regulations;
"balcony" means any stage,
platform, oriel window or other similar structure projecting outwards from the
wall of a building beyond the outer face of an external wall of the building and
supported by brackets or cantilevered;
"basement " means - |
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| "boundary
wall" means any wall, enclosure or screen built on or along a boundary line
of a parcel of land for the purpose of separating such land from another adjoining
parcel of land:
"blind Wall" means a wall in any construction work
having no openings.
"building" includes a house outhouse, stable
latrine, shed, godown or any structure made out of masonry bricks, mud, timber,
metal or any other material.
"building envelope" means the elements
of a building which enclose air-conditioned spaces through which thermal energy
may be transferred from the exterior"
"building line" means the
line upto which a building will be permitted to extend.
"building residential"
means a building exclusively consisting of one dwelling unit or a number of dwelling
units.
"business premises" means a building or part thereof designed,
adapted or used for the carrying on of a business or profession, sale or exchange
of goods with a profit making motive, private, hospitals and nursing homes, and
private educational institutes etc.
"chairman" means the Chairman
of Urban Development Authority.
"chartered Architect" means a person
whose name appears on a register of Chartered Architects kept by Sri Lanka Institute
of Architects .
"code of Fire Precautions for Buildings" means
the Code of Fire Precautions for Buildings that will be published by the Publication
No. ICTAD/DEV/14 or any other fire regulation by the Fire Department of Colombo.
"column in relation to structure-steel or reinforced concrete",
means a part of a construction which by its resistance to compression in the direction
of its length and to bending actions induced by such compression, supports and
transmits a load;
"competent authority" has the same meaning as
in the Planning Authority
"concrete" shall have the same meaning
as in the Code Practice accepted by the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka :
"construct"
means build, erect and place in position and includes reconstruct, rebuild, re-erect
and replace in position;
"cross wall" means an internal wall dividing
a party wall or an external wall into distinct lengths;
"dead load"
or "dead loading" means the weight of all walls, floors, roofs, partitions
and other like permanent structures;
"detached building" means
a building or part thereof which is used or is intended, adapted, or designed
to be used for living purposes and is a self-contained unit;
"development
activity " has the same meaning as in the Law. |
