{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rights-of-light-act-northern-ireland-1961/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rights-of-light-act-northern-ireland-1961/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1961/18",
  "legislation_title": "Rights of Light Act (Northern Ireland) 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rights-of-light-act-northern-ireland-1961",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this act—\n“action” includes a counterclaim, and any reference to the plaintiff in an action shall be construed accordingly;\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 or in pursuance of any enactment, but does not include a mortgage term or any estate arising in favour of a mortgagor by his attorning tenant to his mortgagee;\n“owner”, in relation to any land, means a person who is for the time being the owner of any freehold estate therein, or is entitled to a tenancy thereof for a term of years certain of which, at the time in question, not less than seven years remain unexpired, or is a mortgagee in possession (within the meaning of the Conveyancing Act, 1881 ) where the estate mortgaged is either such a freehold estate or such a tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1881 c. 41"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1961/18/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:02.811295+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."
}