{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-act-1951/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-act-1951/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/65",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-act-1951",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Interpretation of preceding sections of Part III.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“the landlord”, in relation to a tenancy, means the person for the time being entitled to the reversion and, where the reversion is subject to a mortgage and the mortgagee is in possession or he or a receiver appointed by him or by the court is in receipt of the rents and profits, includes that mortgagee and any such receiver as aforesaid;\n“mortgage” includes any charge, and the expressions “mortgagor” and “mortgagee” shall be construed accordingly;\n“notice to quit” includes a notice to determine a term of years certain, but does not include a notice requiring possession where section one hundred and twenty-one of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, applies;\n“the reversion”, in relation to a tenancy, means the interest which not being a mortgage term and apart from any such term, is for the time being in reversion immediately expectant upon the termination of the tenancy; and\n“tenancy” means a tenancy created either immediately or derivatively out of the freehold, whether by a lease or underlease, by an agreement for a lease or underlease or by a tenancy agreement, but does not include any relationship between a mortgagor and a mortgagee as such, and “tenant” shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) References in this Part of this Act to the premises comprised in a tenancy are references to the aggregate of the land comprised in the tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1845 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14-15/65/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:58.490128+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."
}