{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-requisitioned-land-act-1944/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-requisitioned-land-act-1944/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/5",
  "legislation_title": "Landlord and Tenant (Requisitioned Land) Act 1944",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landlord-and-tenant-requisitioned-land-act-1944",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“Damage” includes dilapidations, but does not include war damage within the meaning of the War Damage Act 1943;\n“Emergency powers” has the same meaning as in the Compensation (Defence) Act 1939, that is to say any power conferred by—\na b . . .\ncsection nine of the Civil Aviation Act 1949, as amended by any subsequent enactment,\nor any power exercisable by virtue of the prerogative of the Crown;\n“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;\n“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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Paras. (a)(b) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. XX"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Civil Aviation Act 1949 (c. 67), s. 70(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1943 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1939 c. 75."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1949 c. 67."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/5/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:27:00.393448+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."
}