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Section 525 Minor definitions.F1

England and Wales

In this Part—

  • “ agricultural population ” means—

(a)

persons whose employment or latest employment is or was employment in agriculture or in an industry mainly dependent on agriculture, and

(b)

the dependents of those persons;

and for this purpose “ agriculture ” includes dairy-farming and poultry-farming and the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land, or orchard or osier land or woodland, or for market gardens or nursery grounds;

  • “ charity trustees ” has the same meaning as in the F2the Charities Act 2011 ;

  • “ dwelling ” means a building or part of a building occupied or intended to be ocupied as a separate dwelling, together with any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances belonging to it or usually enjoyed with it;

  • “ house in multiple occupation ” means a house which is occupied by persons who do not form a single household, exclusive of any part of the house which is occupied as a separate dwelling by persons who form a single household;

  • “ improvement ” includes alteration and enlargement;

  • “ owner ”, in relation to a dwelling, means the person who—

(a)

is for the time being entitled to receive from a lessee of the dwelling (or would be so entitled if the dwelling were let) a rent of not less than two-thirds of the net annual value of the dwelling; and

(b)

is not himself liable as lessee of the dwelling, or of property which includes the dwelling, to pay such a rent to a superior landlord.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Ss. 524, 525 repealed and superseded (prosp.) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), ss. 194(4), 195(2), Sch. 12 Pt. II

F2

Words in s. 525 substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 44 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)

Notes on Part XV

Modifications

C1

Pt. XV (ss. 460–526) modified by S.I. 1986/148, art. 10(4)(b)