# Housing Act 1985, Section 525: Minor definitions.

Extent: E+W

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 the 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/525 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-525
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