Housing Act, 1966
PART V Acquisition of Land, etc. | ||
Definitions for purposes of Part V and Third Schedule. |
75.—In this Part and the Third Schedule to this Act— | |
(a) references to the Lands Clauses Acts shall be construed as references to those Acts (other than the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 ) as amended by the Second Schedule to the Act of 1890 and this Act; | ||
(b) “the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 ”, means the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 , as amended by the Acquisition of Land (Reference Committee) Act, 1925 , the Property Values (Arbitrations and Appeals) Act, 1960 , and the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 ; | ||
(c) “the Act of 1890” means the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890; | ||
(d) “house” means a building which is— | ||
(i) wholly or principally used on the relevant date for human habitation, or | ||
(ii) neither wholly nor principally used for human habitation on the relevant date but which, when last wholly or principally used, was so used for human habitation, | ||
and includes any yard, outoffices or appurtenances, garden or other land belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith; | ||
(e) “owner” means in relation to land a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of the land, whether in possession or reversion and includes also a person holding or entitled to the rents and profits of the land under a lease or agreement the unexpired term whereof exceeds three years; | ||
(f) “relevant date” means in relation to a house the date on which the notice as respects the making of the compulsory purchase order relating to the house is published in accordance with article 4 of the said Third Schedule. |