Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “agent” means a person authorised by a landlord to let any land or buildings, or to collect rent, or to levy distress, or to do any other act in relation to a tenancy; “buildings” includes houses, rooms, flats, apartments and parts thereof; “deed” means a writing or instrument written on paper or parchment, signed, sealed and delivered, to prove and testify the agreement of the parties whose deed it is, to the things contained in the deed; “land” includes buildings, houses and other structures and erections thereon; 8 “landlord” means any person who under any tenancy is, as between himself and the tenant for the time being, entitled to the rents and profits of the land or building; “lease” includes under-lease and assignment operating as a lease or under-lease; “lessee”, in relation to lease, has the same meaning as “tenant”; “lessor”, in relation to a lease, has the same meaning as “landlord”; “premises” means lands, houses or other corporeal hereditaments; “rent” means the sum of money or other ascertainable consideration payable by the tenant for the possession of the land or building under a tenancy; “tenant” means any person entitled in possession to the land or building under any contract of tenancy, whether the interest of such tenant was acquired by original contract, assignment, operation of law or otherwise; “tenement” means any land or buildings in possession of a tenant under a tenancy.