{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-525",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-525.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/525",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "525",
  "heading": "Minor definitions.",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“ agricultural population ” means—\n(a) persons whose employment or latest employment is or was employment in agriculture or in an industry mainly dependent on agriculture, and\n(b) the dependents of those persons;\nand 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;\n“ charity trustees ” has the same meaning as in the the Charities Act 2011 ;\n“ 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;\n“ 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;\n“ improvement ” includes alteration and enlargement;\n“ owner ”, in relation to a dwelling, means the person who—\n(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\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 524, 525 repealed and superseded (prosp.)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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/525",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+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."
}