Clause 3

In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires —

“aerial sign” means any sign, representation, communication or advertisement visible against the sky from any street or public place or any sound audible therefrom made, exhibited or displayed by or by means of an aircraft or other means not attached to premises other than a sign, representation, communication or sound made, exhibited, displayed or used for the purposes of aerial navigation;

“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, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure, support or foundation connected to the foregoing;

“City Council” means the City Council of Singapore originally incorporated by Indian Act No. 27 of 1857 and incorporated under and by virtue of the Municipal (Elections—Amendent) Ordinance, 1948 (Ord. 29 of 1948), with the status of a City conferred by Royal Charter dated the 24th day of July, 1951, and as constituted under the provisions of section 6 of the Local Government Ordinance, 1957 (Ord. 24 of 1957);

“Competent Authority” means any Competent Authority appointed under section 3 of the Planning Ordinance, 1959 (Ord. 12 of 1959);

“Consolidated Fund” means the Consolidated Fund constituted by section 95 of the Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958; [G.N. No. S 293/58.]

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

“dwelling-house” includes a building or tenement wholly or principally used, constructed or adapted for use for human habitation;

“footway” includes foot-ways and verandah-ways at the sides of streets;

“garden refuse” means the refuse from garden and agricultural operations;

“Health Officer” means a Health Officer appointed under section 65 of this Ordinance and includes the Director of Medical Services, a Deputy Director of Medical Services, an Assistant Director of Medical Services and a Senior Health Officer;

“holding” means any piece or parcel of land held or possessed under an instrument of title, capable of being registered under the Registration of Deeds Ordinance (Cap. 255), or where applicable under the Land Titles Ordinance, 1956 (Ord. 21 of 1956), relating exclusively thereto;

“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office, counting-house, shop, school, and any other building in which persons are employed;

“market” means any place, other than a shop, ordinarily used for the sale of animals or of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, poultry, eggs or other perishable articles of food for human consumption, and includes all land and premises in any way used in conjunction or connection therewith or appurtenant thereto;

“Municipal Provident Fund” means the Municipal Provident Fund established by the City Council under the provisions of the Municipal Ordinance (Cap. 133 (1936 Edition)) and continued and deemed to have been established under the Local Government Ordinance, 1957 (Ord. 24 of 1957);

“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 premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant and shall for the purposes of sections 47 and 56 of this Ordinance include a mortgagee not in possession and includes the person whose name is entered in the Valuation List authenticated under the provisions of section 12 of the Property Tax Ordinance, 1960 (Ord. 72 of 1960);

“a place of public resort” means a building or a defined or enclosed place used or constructed or adapted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally as a church, chapel, mosque, temple or other place where public worship is or religious ceremonies are performed, not being merely a dwelling-house so used, or as a cinema, theatre, public hall, public concert room, public ballroom, public lecture room, or public exhibition room, or as a public place of assembly for persons admitted thereto by ticket or otherwise, or used or constructed or adapted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally for any other public purpose;

“port” means a port within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Cap. 207);

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

“private street” means any street not being a public street;

“public bridge” means a bridge which carries a public street;

“public street” means any street over which the public has a right of way which was usually repaired or maintained by the City Council or the Rural Board before the coming into operation of this Ordinance or which has been transferred to or has become vested in the Government under this Ordinance or in any other manner;

“Public Utilities Board” means the Public Utilities Board established by section 3 of the Public Utilities Ordinance, 1963 (Ord. 1 of 1963);

“regular line of street” means a line of street shown on the Master Plan as defined in the Planning Ordinance, 1959 (Ord. 12 of 1959), and includes a regular line of street prescribed by the Singapore Improvement Trust under the Singapore Improvement Ordinance and before 1st July, 1927, by the Municipal Commissioners of the Town of Singapore;

“Rural Board” means the Rural Board, Singapore, constituted under the Municipal Ordinance (Cap. 133 (1963 Edition));

“Singapore Improvement Trust” means the Singapore Improvement Trust constituted under the Singapore Improvement Ordinance (Cap. 259);

“sky-sign” means any erection consisting of a frame, hoarding, board, bar, pillar, post, wire or any combination of such things, or any erection of a like nature, or any visible object which floats or is kept in position by wire or other flexible attachment, displayed for the purposes of trade or professional advertisement in such a position as to be conspicuously visible against the sky above the general level of the roofs of surrounding buildings from any street or public place;

“stable refuse” means the dung or urine of horses, cattle, sheep, goats or swine, and the sweepings or refuse or drainage from any stables or cattle-sheds or places for keeping sheep, goats, swine or poultry;

“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and also the way over any public bridge, and also includes any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public have a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of such street;

“street works” includes work of sewering, levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, kerbing, channelling, draining, lighting, laying of water, gas or electricity services and otherwise the making good a street or part of a street;

“trade refuse” means the refuse of any trade, manufacture or business or of any building operations;

“Treasury” means the Minister charged with responsibility for finance in the State of Singapore and includes any officer under the administrative control or direction of the Minister;

In any written law and in any document whatsoever, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a local authority or the City Council or the Rural Board or any officer thereof, shall be construed as a reference to the Government, Minister or public officer for the time being, under and by virtue of this Ordinance, discharging the functions performed by such local authority, the City Council, Rural Board or any officer thereof, as the case may be, prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance.