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Part VII.
Definitions, Application of Act, and Savings.
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Definitions.
10 & 11 Vict. c. 32.
33 & 34 Vict. c. 46.
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57. In the construction of this Act the following words and expressions shall have the meaning hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the context repugnant thereto; that is to say,
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“Board of Works” means the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland:
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“County” includes a riding of a county:
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“Contract of tenancy” means a letting or agreement for the letting of land for a term of years or for lives, or for lives and years, or from year to year:
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“Tenant” means a person occupying land under a contract of tenancy, and includes the successors in title to a tenant.
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Where the tenant sub-lets part of his holding with the consent of his landlord he shall, notwithstanding such sub-letting, be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be still in occupation of the holding.
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“Landlord” means the immediate landlord or the person for the time being entitled to receive the rents and profits or take possession of the land held by his tenant, and includes the successors in title to a landlord:
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“Holding” during the continuance of a tenancy means a parcel of land held by a tenant of a landlord for the same term and under the same contract of tenancy, and, upon the determination of such tenancy, means the same parcel of land discharged from the tenancy:
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“Tenancy” means the interest in a holding of a tenant and his successors in title during the continuance of a tenancy; and “rent of a tenancy” means the rent for the time being payable by such tenant or some one or more of his successors:
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“Present tenancy” means a tenancy subsisting at the time of the passing of this Act or created before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three in a holding in which a tenancy was subsisting at the time of the passing of this Act, and every tenancy to which this Act applies shall be deemed to be a present tenancy until the contrary is proved:
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“Future tenancy” means, except as aforesaid, a tenancy beginning after the passing of this Act:
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“Ordinary tenancy” means a tenancy to which this Act applies, and which is not a tenancy subject to statutory conditions, or a judicial lease, or a fixed tenancy:
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“Sale,” “sell,” and cognate words include alienation, and alienate, with or without valuable consideration:
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“Ejectment” includes action for recovery of land:
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“An estate” means any lands which the land commission may by order declare fit to be purchased as a separate estate for the purposes of this Act:
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“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made in pursuance of this Act:
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“Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Acts” means the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1847, and any Acts amending or extending the same.
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Any words or expressions in this Act which are not hereby defined, and are defined in the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, shall, unless there is something in the context of this Act repugnant thereto, have the same meaning as in the last-mentioned Act, and the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, except in so far as the same is expressly altered or varied by this Act or is inconsistent therewith, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.
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