Housing, Town Planning, &C. Act, 1909

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Amendment of definitions for purpose of Part II. of the principal Act.

49.—(1) The words “means any inhabited building and” shall be omitted from the definition of “dwelling-house” in section twenty-nine of the principal Act.

(2) For the definition of owner in the same section the following definition shall be substituted:—

“The expression ‘owner,’ in addition to the definition given by the Lands Clauses Acts, includes all lessees or mortgagees of any premises required to be dealt with under this Part of this Act, except persons holding or entitled to the rents and profits of such premises under a lease the original term whereof is less than twenty-one years.”