Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order (Cap. 35:01)

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (USE CLASSES) ORDER made under section 8(2) (f) 124/1969. 1. This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order. 2. In this Order— “garage” means a place where motor vehicles are bought and sold, stored, repaired and maintained and is a place used for light industrial purposes; “service station” means a shop for the sale of petrol and petroleum products where motor vehicles are washed, lubricated or otherwise maintained; “shop” means a building used for the carrying on of any retail trade or retail business wherein the primary purpose is the selling of goods by retail, and includes a building used for the purposes of a hairdresser, travel agency or for the reception of goods to be washed, cleaned or repaired but does not include a building used for the purposes of a funeral undertaker, garage, petrol filling station, service station, office, bank, grocery, betting office, restaurant or other place for the sale of prepared food, hotel or premises for the sale of intoxicating liquors for consumption on the premises, a lumber yard or premises for the sale of builders’ materials or motor vehicle parts or accesories. 3. (1) Where a building or other land is used for a purpose of any class specified in the Schedule, the use of such building or other land for any purpose of the same class shall not be deemed for the purposes of the Act to involve development of the land. (2) A use ordinarily incidental to and included in any use specified in the Schedule shall not be excluded from that use merely by reason of its being specified in the Schedule as a separate use. SCHEDULE CLASS I — Use as a shop. CLASS II — Use as an office or bank. CLASS III — Use as a warehouse, except for the storage of noxious or dangerous goods. CLASS IV — Use as a place of public worship or religious instruction or for the social and recreational activities of a religious group. CLASS V — Use as a creche, day nursery or use as a consulting room or surgery not within the curtilage of the residence of the consultant or medical practitioner. CLASS VI — Use as an art gallery, museum, public library, public reading-room or exhibition hall. CLASS VII — Use as a meeting hall or concert hall. CLASS VIII — Use as a theatre or cinema. CLASS IX — Use as a gymnasium, centre for indoor games or community centre.