Housing and Planning Act 2016

Valid from 06/04/2017

56 General interpretation of Part E+W

In this Part—

• “banning order” has the meaning given by section 14;

• “banning order offence” has the meaning given by section 14;

• “body corporate” includes a body incorporated outside England and Wales;

• “database” means the database of rogue landlords and letting agents established under section 28;

• “English letting agency work” has the meaning given by section 54;

• “English property management work” has the meaning given by section 55;

• “financial penalty” means a penalty that—

  (a)

  is imposed in respect of conduct that amounts to an offence, but

  (b)

  is imposed otherwise than following the person's conviction for the offence;

• “housing” means a building, or part of a building, occupied or intended to be occupied as a dwelling or as more than one dwelling;

• “letting”—

  (a)

  includes the grant of a licence, but

  (b)

  except in Chapter 4, does not include the grant of a tenancy or licence for a term of more than 21 years,

  and “let” is to be read accordingly;

• “letting agency work” has the meaning given by section 54;

• “letting agent” has the meaning given by section 54;

• “local housing authority” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Housing Act 1985;

• “officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means—

  (a)

  any director, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or

  (b)

  any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity;

• “property agent” means a letting agent or property manager;

• “property manager” has the meaning given by section 55;

• “residential landlord” means a landlord of housing;

• “tenancy”—

  (a)

  includes a licence, but

  (b)

  except in Chapter 4, does not include a tenancy or licence for a term of more than 21 years.