Section 5 Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• F1“the appropriate judicial body” means whichever of the court or a tribunal has jurisdiction under section 4;

• F2...

• F3“arbitration agreement” means an agreement in writing to submit to arbitration any question arising under this Act or any agreement to which it applies;

• “the court” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to England F4..., the county court F5... or, where the parties have F6entered into an arbitration agreement that applies to the question to be determined, the arbitrator;

  2. (b)

     in relation to Scotland, the sheriff having jurisdiction where the protected site is situated or, where the parties have so agreed, the arbiter ;

• “local authority” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M1Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960;

• “mobile home” has the same meaning as “caravan” has in that Part of that Act ;

• “owner”, in relation to a protected site, means the person who, by virtue of an estate or interest held by him, is entitled to possession of the site or would be so entitled but for the rights of any persons to station mobile homes on land forming part of the site ;

• “planning permission” means permission under F7Part III F8or, in relation to England, Part 13 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or F9Part III of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997;

• “protected site” F10... has the same meaning as in Part I of the M2Caravan Sites Act 1968.

• F11“a tribunal” means, where the parties have entered into an arbitration agreement that applies to the question to be determined and that question arose before the agreement was made, the arbitrator; or, in other cases—

  1. (a)

     in relation to England, the First-tier Tribunal or, where determined by or under Tribunal Procedure Rules, the Upper; and

  2. (b)

     in relation to Wales, a residential property tribunal

In relation to an agreement to which this Act applies—

A person is a member of another’s family within the meaning of this Act if he is his spouse, F12civil partner, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece; treating—

or if they live together F14as husband and wife F15or as if they were civil partners as if they were a married couple or civil partners.

In relation to land in Scotland, any reference in this Act to an “estate or interest” shall be construed as a reference to a right in, or to, the land.