Section 22: Interpretation of Part I.

In this Part of this Act:—

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• “date of termination” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section four of this Act;

• “the dwelling-house” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (3) of section six of this Act;

• “election to retain possession” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (6) of section four of this Act;

• “former tenancy” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section six of this Act;

• “initial repairs” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section eight of this Act;

• “the landlord” has the meaning assigned to it by the last foregoing section;

• “landlord’s notice proposing a statutory tenancy” and “landlord’s notice to resume possession” have the meanings assigned to them respectively by subsection (5) of section four of this Act;

• “long tenancy” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (4) of section two of this Act;

• “order” includes judgment;

• “payment for accrued tenant’s repairs” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section eight of this Act;

• “the period of the statutory tenancy” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (6) of section seven of this Act;

• “premises qualifying for protection” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (3) of section three of this Act;

• “qualifying condition” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section two of this Act;

• “the Rent Act” means the Rent Act 1977 as it applies to regulated tenancies but exclusive of Parts II to V thereof;

• “tenancy at a low rent” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (5) of section two of this Act;

• “term date” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (6) of section two of this Act.

In relation to the premises constituting the dwelling-house the expression “the tenant” in this Part of this Act means the tenant under the former tenancy and, except as respects any payment for accrued tenant’s repairs not payable by instalments, includes any successor to his statutory tenancy, and the expression “successor to his statutory tenancy”, in relation to that tenant, means a person who after that tenant’s death retains possession of the dwelling-house by virtue of the Rent Act.

In determining, for the purposes of any provision of this Part of this Act, whether the property comprised in a tenancy, or any part of that property, was let as a separate dwelling, the nature of the property or part at the time of the creation of the tenancy shall be deemed to have been the same as its nature at the time in relation to which the question arises, and the purpose for which it was let under the tenancy shall be deemed to have been the same as the purpose for which it is or was used at the last-mentioned time.