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Section 46: Interpretation of Part II.

Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 · 1954 c. 56View on legislation.gov.uk

Part II: Security of Tenure for Business, Professional and other Tenants

In this Part of this Act:—

  • “ business ” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of section twenty-three of this Act;

  • “current tenancy” means the tenancy under which the tenant holds for the time being;

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

  • subject to the provisions of section thirty-two of this Act, “ the holding ” has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (3) of section twenty-three of this Act;

  • “interim rent” has the meaning given by section 24A(1) of this Act;

  • “ mining lease ” has the same meaning as in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927.

For the purposes of this Part of this Act, a person has a controlling interest in a company, if, had he been a company, the other company would have been its subsidiary; and in this Part—

  • “company” has the meaning given by section 1(1) of the Companies Act 2006; and

  • “subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 1159 of that Act.

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