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[8. 2 cont.]
Landlord and Tenant.
any premises and in relation to a particular tenant means the person entitled to receive rent from such tenant; "lease" or "tenancy agreement" includes every agreement for the letting of any premises, whether oral or in writing;
"let" includes sub-let and "letting" includes sub-letting; "order" includes any judgment or decree of the court or the order of any tribunal;
"premises" means the subject matter of any tenancy; "principal tenant" means a tenant of premises other than a Crown lessee, who has or shall sub-let any part or parts thereof as a separate holding or holdings but shall not include a tenant, hereinafter referred to as a derivative landlord, who has or shall sub-let the whole of such premises as one holding;
"standard rent" with respect to any premises other than dependent domestic premises means-
(a) if the premises were actually let unfurnished on the 25th day of December, 1941, the rate of rent which was recoverable from the sitting tenant; and
(b) if the premises were not actually let on the 25th day of December, 1941, or were then let furnished, but had been let unfurnished on some previous date, the rate of rent which was recoverable from the sitting tenant on the last occasion before the 25th day of December, 1941, on which the premises were actually let unfurnished; and
(c) if the premises were not let unfurnished until after the 25th day of December, 1941, then such rate of rent as may be fixed by a tribunal under the provisions of section 17 having regard to what would have constituted a fair rent for the premises if let unfurnished immediately before the 1st day of December, 1941,
and in respect of any dependent domestic premises means that proportion of the rent of the whole of the premises let to a principal tenant at the rate prescribed in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this definition, as the case may be, as is fairly attributable to such dependent domestic premises with an addition thereto of twenty per cent;
"tenancy" includes a sub-tenancy and "tenant" includes a sub-tenant;
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