Section 525 — Housing Act 1985: Minor definitions.

Minor definitions. 525 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 the Charities Act 2011 ; “ 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.