Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “authorised officer” means any person who may from time to time be appointed as such by the Minister for the purposes of this Act; “land” includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and real property of every tenure or description, whatever may be the estate or interest therein; “person interested” means every person claiming, or entitled to claim, compensation under this Act: Provided that a tenant by the month or at will shall be deemed not to be a person interested for the purposes of this Act; “public purpose” means a purpose determined to be a public purpose in accordance with section 4 of this Act. 6