Section 5 Interpretation.

In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

• “Damage” includes dilapidations, but does not include war damage within the meaning of the M1War Damage Act 1943;

• “Emergency powers” has the same meaning as in the M2Compensation (Defence) Act 1939, that is to say any power conferred by—

  1. a b

     . . . F1

  2. c

     F2section nine of the M3Civil Aviation Act 1949, as amended by any subsequent enactment,

or any power exercisable by virtue of the prerogative of the Crown;

• “Lease” includes an under-lease or other tenancy, an assignment operating as a lease or under-lease, and an agreement for a lease, under-lease or tenancy, or for such an assignment, and the expression “covenant” shall be construed accordingly;

• “Repairing covenant” means a covenant, whether express or implied, and whether general or specific, to keep in repair any premises comprised in a lease, or to leave or put any such premises in repair, or to pay a sum of money in lieu of leaving or putting the premises in repair, at the termination of the lease, but does not include a covenant to lay out in the reinstatement of any such premises money received under a policy of insurance.