Section 20 Interpretation etcI1

In this Part—

• “anti-social behaviour” has the meaning given by F1section 1(9);

• “harm” includes serious ill-treatment or abuse, whether physical or not;

• “housing accommodation” includes—

  1. (a)

     flats, lodging-houses and hostels;

  2. (b)

     any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances belonging to the accommodation or usually enjoyed with it;

  3. (c)

     any common areas used in connection with the accommodation;

• F2“housing injunction” means an injunction under section 1A;

• “housing provider” means—

  1. (a)

     a housing trust, within the meaning given by section 2 of the Housing Associations Act 1985, that is a charity;

  2. (b)

     F3in relation to England, a housing action trust established under section 62 of the Housing Act 1988;

  3. (c)

     in relation to England, a non-profit private registered provider of social housing;

  4. (d)

     in relation to Wales, a Welsh body registered as a social landlord under section 3 of the Housing Act 1996;

  5. (e)

     any body (other than a local authority or a body within paragraphs (a) to (d)) that is a landlord under a secure tenancy within the meaning given by section 79 of the Housing Act 1985;

• “housing-related anti-social conduct” has the meaning given by section 2;

• “local authority” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to England, a district council, a county council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

  2. (b)

     in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough council;

• “respect order” means an order under section A1;

• F4“respondent”—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a youth injunction, has the meaning given by section 1(1);

  2. (b)

     in relation to a housing injunction, has the meaning given by section 1A(1);

• “youth injunction” means an injunction under section 1;

A person's age is treated for the purposes of this Part as being that which it appears to the court to be after considering any available evidence.