PART 2Rogue landlords and property agents in England

CHAPTER 6Interpretation of Part 2

56General interpretation of Part

In this Part—

“banning order” has the meaning given by section 14;

“banning order offence” has the meaning given by section 14;

“body corporate” includes a body incorporated outside England and Wales;

“database” means the database of rogue landlords and letting agents established under section 28;

“English letting agency work” has the meaning given by section 54;

“English property management work” has the meaning given by section 55;

“financial penalty” means a penalty that—

(a)

is imposed in respect of conduct that amounts to an offence, but

(b)

is imposed otherwise than following the person's conviction for the offence;

“housing” means a building, or part of a building, occupied or intended to be occupied as a dwelling or as more than one dwelling;

“letting”—

(a)

includes the grant of a licence, but

(b)

except in Chapter 4, does not include the grant of a tenancy or licence for a term of more than 21 years,

and “let” is to be read accordingly;

“letting agency work” has the meaning given by section 54;

“letting agent” has the meaning given by section 54;

“local housing authority” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Housing Act 1985;

“officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means—

(a)

any director, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or

(b)

any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity;

“property agent” means a letting agent or property manager;

“property manager” has the meaning given by section 55;

“residential landlord” means a landlord of housing;

“tenancy”—

(a)

includes a licence, but

(b)

except in Chapter 4, does not include a tenancy or licence for a term of more than 21 years.