Savings.

Nothing in this Act shall apply to — (a) alterations in a building not being a conversion and not involving increase in the existing plinth area or roof area or in the total height of the building; (b) re-erection of a dilapidated part of a building not being a conversion and not involving re-erection of the whole building or, in the case of a storeyed building) of the whole storey; (c) furnaces, fire-places, flues, chimneys, washing places, drainage lines, latrines, urinals, septic tanks or manholes and inspection chambers for drains ; (d) storage tanks or wells; (e) boundary walls, compound walls and fencings; (f) the erection re-erection or conversion of a building— (i) which is undertaken or carried out on behalf of the Government of a local authority or in pursuance of a contract with the Government or a local authority, or (ii) the cost of which, or any part of the, cost of which, the Government or a local authority has agreed to pay.