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Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

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69Interpretation.

(1)In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—

  • " agricultural holding " has the same meaning as in the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948 ;

  • " development corporation " has the same meaning as in the New Towns Act, 1946;

  • " local authority " has the same meaning as in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 ;

  • " mortgage " includes a charge or lien and " mortgagor " and " mortgagee " shall be construed accordingly ;

  • " notice to quit " means a notice to terminate a tenancy (whether a periodical tenancy or a tenancy for a term of years certain) given in accordance with the provisions (whether express or implied) of that tenancy ;

  • " repairs " includes any work of maintenance, decoration or restoration, and references to repairing, to keeping or yielding up in repair and to state of repair shall be construed accordingly;

  • " statutory undertakers " has the same meaning as in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, except that it includes the National Coal Board;

  • " 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 (including this Act), but does not include a mortgage term or any interest arising in favour of a mortgagor by his attorning tenant to his mortgagee, and references to the granting of a tenancy and to demised property shall be construed accordingly ;

  • " terms ", in relation to a tenancy, includes conditions.

(2)References in this Act to an agreement between the landlord and the tenant (except in section seventeen and subsections (1) and (2) of section thirty-eight thereof) shall be construed as references to an agreement in writing between them.

(3)References in this Act to an action for any relief shall be construed as including references to a claim for that relief by way of counterclaim in any proceedings.

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