Section 2

In this Act and in any by-laws passed under this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context —

“arcade” includes verandah;

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

“Chairman” means the officer for the time being lawfully performing the duties of the office of Chairman of the Municipal

Board, and includes a Deputy Chairman;

“dairy” includes cowshed, milk store, milk shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is drawn or kept for purposes of sale;

“footway” includes five foot ways and verandahs at the sides of streets;

“health officer” means the officer for the time being performing the duties of health officer to the Municipal Board, and includes assistant health officer;

“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office and shop, also schools and any other buildings in which persons are employed;

“market” means any place (other than a shop) ordinarily used for the sale of animals or of fish, meat, fruit, vegetables or other perishable articles of food for human consumption;

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“Municipal Board area” means an area subject to the control of a

Municipal Board in respect of the matters provided for by this Act;

“nuisance” means any act, omission or thing occasioning or likely to occasion injury, annoyance, offence, harm, danger or damage to the sense of sight, smell or hearing, or which is or is likely to be injurious or dangerous to health or property;

“occupier” means the person in occupation of the premises in respect of which the word is used, or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;

“owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the land or premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such land or premises were let to a tenant; and in any case in which such person cannot be found or makes default includes also the occupier, if any, of such land or premises;

“premises” includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;

“public market” means a market which has been declared a market, or which may hereafter be declared a market, under this

Act;

(deleted by S 31/2016);

“street” includes every road, square, footway, passage or waterway

(whether a thoroughfare or not) over which the public has a right of way and also the way over any public bridge;

“town limits” means the limits of a town as defined from time to time under the provisions of any law regulating the establishment of towns.

A person is said to “reside” in any dwelling which he sometimes uses as sleeping apartment, although he does not use it uninterruptedly or has elsewhere a dwelling where he has and sometimes uses another such apartment. A person does not cease to “reside” in a dwelling where he has such an apartment merely because he is absent from it if there is the liberty of returning at any time and no abandonment of the intention to return at pleasure.

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