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,— (a) “ 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 ; (b) “house” means any building, hut or shed, or any part thereof, let or to be let separately k for residential and includes— A * 3 or non-residential purposes, (i; the garden, ground and out-house, if any appurtenant to such building, hut, shed or part thereof; and (ii) any furniture supplied by the landlord for use by the tenant in such house, but does not include any premises belonging to the State Government or Central Government or a Local Authority ; (c) “ 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 of any other person, or as a trustee guardian or receiver for any other per son ; 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 land lord but does not include the State Govern ment or Central Government or a Local Authority ; (d) “pucca structure” means a structure with— (i) cemented, or wooden floor, (ii) iron, brick or concrete posts, and (iii) roof of reinforced concrete, or of galva nised iron, aluminium or asbestos sheets; (e) “standard rent” in relation to any house means the rent calculated on the basis of annual payment of an amount equal to seven and half per cent of the aggregate amount of the cost of construction and the market price of the land on the date of commencement of the construction together with the total municipal taxes payable in respect of the house and Urban Immovable Property Tax under the Assam Urban Immovable Property Tax Act, Assam Act 1963, and monthly rent shall be equal to one- ^963°f twelfth of the annual payment so calculated ; (f) “ tenant” means any person by whom or on whose behalf rent is payable for any house and includes every person who from time to time derives title under a tenant ; 4 i„g) “urban area” means any area declaredAobe, 4 or included in, a municipality under the provisions of sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the Assam Municipal Act, 1956 or declared Assam Act to be a notified area under the provisions of XV of 1957. sub-section (4) of Section 334 of the said Act, and includes a Cantonment as defined in Act II of Section 3 of the Cantonments Act, 1924.