PART XV GRANTS FOR WORKS OF IMPROVEMENT, REPAIR AND CONVERSION

F1 General supplementary provisions

525 Minor definitions.

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 F2the 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.