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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artizans-and-labourers-dwellings-act-1868/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/130",
  "legislation_title": "Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artizans-and-labourers-dwellings-act-1868",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Terms.",
  "text": "The following Words and Expressions have in this Act the following Meanings, unless excluded by the Subject or Context; (that is to say,)\nThe Word \" Street \" includes any Court, Alley, Street, Square, or Row of Houses :\nThe Word \" Premises \" means any Dwelling House or inhabited Building, and the Site thereof, with the Yard, Garden, Outhouses, and Appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith:\nThe Expression \" Owner, \" in addition to the Definition given by the Lands Clauses Act, shall include all Lessees or Mortgagees of any Premises required to be dealt with under this Act, except Persons holding or entitled to the Rents and Profits of such Premises for a Term of Years, of which Twenty-one Years do not remain unexpired :\n\" Person \" shall include a Body of Persons, corporate or unincorporate :\n\" Quarter Sessions \" shall include General Sessions, and in Ireland shall mean, in Towns and Boroughs where there are separate Quarter Sessions, the Quarter Sessions of said Boroughs and Towns, and in Boroughs where there are no separate Quarter Sessions, the Quarter Sessions of the Divisions of the Courts in which such Towns or Boroughs shall be situate :\n\" Officer of Health \" shall mean and include Medical Officer of Health, Sanitary Inspector, or any Statutory Officer performing the Duties which a Medical Officer or Sanitary Inspector performs under or by virtue of any Act of Parliament:\nIn all Cases in which the Name of a Local Authority, Local Court, Magistrate, or Officer having any Local Jurisdiction in respect of their or his Office is referred to, without Mention of the Locality to which the Jurisdiction extends, such Reference is to be understood to indicate the Local Authority, Local Court, Magistrate, or Officer having Jurisdiction in that Place within which are situate the Premises or other Subject Matter or any Part thereof to which such Reference applies :\n\" The Metropolis \" shall not include the City of London or the Liberties thereof, but shall include all other Parishes or Places within the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works :\n\" Borough \" in England shall mean any Place for the Time being subject to the Act passed in the Session holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-six, intituled An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:\n\" Burgh \" in Scotland shall mean any Place returning or contributing to return Members to Parliament, or any Place subject to the Jurisdiction of a Town Council:\n\" Borough \" in Ireland shall mean any Place for the Time being subject to the Act passed in the Session of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and eight, and intituled An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/130/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:04.492895+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}