Section 5 Interpretation.

In this Act—

• “covenant” includes condition and agreement,

• “consent” includes licence,

• “landlord” includes any superior landlord from whom the tenant’s immediate landlord directly or indirectly holds,

• “tenancy”, subject to subsection (3) below, means any lease or other tenancy (whether made before or after the coming into force of this Act) and includes—

  1. (a)

     a sub-tenancy, and

  2. (b)

     an agreement for a tenancy

  and references in this Act to the landlord and to the tenant are to be interpreted accordingly, and

• “tenant”, where the tenancy is affected by a mortgage (within the meaning of the M1Law of Property Act 1925) and the mortgagee proposes to exercise his statutory or express power of sale, includes the mortgagee.

An application or notice is to be treated as served for the purposes of this Act if—

This Act does not apply to a secure tenancy (defined in section 79 of the M3Housing Act 1985) F1or to an introductory tenancy (within the meaning of Chapter I of Part V of the Housing Act 1996) F2or to an occupation contract (within the meaning of section 7 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)).

This Act applies only to applications for consent or approval served after its coming into force.