Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in. the subject matter or context,— (?) “ The Court” means the Court of Ordinary Civil Jurisdiction in the area in which a house is situated which: would be competent to pass a decree for the eviction of a. tenant from that house ; (??) “ house” means any building, hut or shed, or any part thereof, let or to be let separately for residential or non- l’e-idential purposes, and. includes— (a) the garden, ground and out-houses, if any, appur tenant to such building, hut, shed or part thereof ; and (/>) any furniture supplied by the landlord for use by the tenant in such house, but does not include any premises: belonging to Provincial or Central Government or a Local Authority ; (Hi) “ landlord” means any person who is, for the time being, receiving, or entitled to receive rent in respect of any house whether on his own account, or on account, or on behalf, or for the benefit ©f any other person, or as a trustee, guardian or receiver for any other person ; and includes in respect of his sub-tenant, a tenant who has sublet any house and further includes every person not being a tenant who from time to time derives title under a landlord but does not include Provincial or Central Government or a Local Authority ; (h) “ tenant” means any person by whom or on whose behalf rent is payab'e for any house, and includes every person who from time to time derives title under a tenant ; 3 « (&j “urban area” means any area declared to be, or included in, a municipality under the provisions of clauses (a) and (£>) of sub section (2) of section 5 or declared to be a notified area under the provisions of sub-section (4) of A ssam A t j section 328, or deemed to be such under the proviso to that o f 1923. sub-section, of the Assam Municipal Act, 1923 and includes Act jj op a Cantonment as defined in Cantonments Act, 1924.