Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. XV (ss. 460–526) modified by S.I. 1986/148, art. 10(4)(b)
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 524, 525 repealed and superseded (prosp.) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), ss. 194(4), 195(2), Sch. 12 Pt. II
In this Part—
“agricultural population” means—
(a)persons whose employment or latest employment is or was employment in agriculture or in an industry mainly dependent on agriculture, and
(b)the dependents of those persons;
and for this purpose “agriculture” includes dairy-farming and poultry-farming and the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land, or orchard or osier land or woodland, or for market gardens or nursery grounds;
“charity trustees” has the same meaning as in the [F2the Charities Act 1993];
“dwelling” means a building or part of a building occupied or intended to be ocupied as a separate dwelling, together with any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances belonging to it or usually enjoyed with it;
“house in multiple occupation” means a house which is occupied by persons who do not form a single household, exclusive of any part of the house which is occupied as a separate dwelling by persons who form a single household;
“improvement” includes alteration and enlargement;
“owner”, in relation to a dwelling, means the person who—
(a)is for the time being entitled to receive from a lessee of the dwelling (or would be so entitled if the dwelling were let) a rent of not less than two-thirds of the net annual value of the dwelling; and
(b)is not himself liable as lessee of the dwelling, or of property which includes the dwelling, to pay such a rent to a superior landlord.]
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 525 substituted (1.8.1993) by 1993 c. 10, ss. 98(1), 99(1), Sch. 6 para. 30.
The following Table shows provisions defining or otherwise explaining expressions used in this part (other than provisions defining or explaining an expression in the same section):—
| agricultural population | section 525 |
| applicant | section 515(1) |
| appropriate percentage | section 509 |
| certificate of availability for letting | section 464(5) |
| certificate of owner-occupation | section 464(3), (4) |
| certified date | section 499(3) |
| charity | section 622 |
| charity trustees | section 525 |
| [F4common parts (for the purposes of common parts grant)] | [F4section 498A(2)(b)] |
| [F4common parts grant] | [F4section 460 and 498A] |
| co-operative housing association | section 5(2) |
| district (of a local housing authority) | section 2(1) |
| dwelling | section 525 |
| dwelling for a disabled occupant | section 518 |
| eligible expense | sections 472, 481, 489 and [F5,497 and 498F] |
| fit for human habitation | section 604 |
| [F6flat (for the purposes of common parts grant)] | [F6section 498A(2)(a)] |
| general improvement area | section 253 |
| grant (without more) | section 460(1) |
| house in multiple occupation | section 525 |
| housing action area | section 239 |
| housing association | section 5(1) |
| housing authority | section 4(a) |
| improvement | section 518(3) and 525 |
| improvement grant | sections 460 and 467 |
| initial period | section 499(2) |
| intermediate grant | sections 460 and 474 |
| lessee and let | section 621 |
| local housing authority | section 1, 2(2) |
| [F7long tenancy] | [F7section 115] |
| member of family | section 520 |
| owner | section 525 |
| protected occupancy | section 622 |
| protected tenancy | section 622 |
| reasonable repair | section 519 |
| registered and unregistered (in relation to a housing association) | section 5(4) |
| relevant works | section 461(2) |
| repairs grant | sections 460 and 491 |
| restricted contract | section 622 |
| secure tenancy | section 79 |
| special grant | section 460 and 483 |
| standard amenity | section 508(1) |
| statutory tenancy | section 622 |
| tenancy and tenant | section 621] |
Textual Amendments
F3S. 526 repealed and superseded (prosp.) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42, SIF 61), ss. 101(5), 194(4), 195(2), Sch. 12 Pt. II
F4Entries inserted by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 61), s. 15, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 14(2)
F5Words substituted by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 61), s. 15, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 14(3)
F6Entry inserted by Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63, SIF 61), s. 15, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 14(2)
F7Entry inserted by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 131(6)