In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject matter or context,
(i) "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 ;
(ii) "house" means any building, hut or shed, or any part thereof.
let or to be let separately for residential or non-residential purposes, and includes- ( a) the garden, ground and out-houses, if any appurtenant to such building, hut, shed or part thereof ; and
(b) any furniture supplied by the landlord for use by the tenant in such house, but does not include any premises belonging to State Government or Central Government or a Local Authority;
(iii) "landlord" myans any person who is, for the time being, receiving, or entitled to receive rent in respect of any house whether on his own ac1.:ount.
or on account, or on behalf, or for the benefit of any other person, or as a trustee, guardian or receiver for any other person ; and includes ~n respect 2 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 bul: does not include State Government or Central Government or a Local Authority ;
(iv) "standard rent" in relation to any house means the average monthly rent actually paid by any tenant for the house over a period of twelve months from the first day of January 1946 to the thirty-first day of December 1946 ;
(v) "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 ;
(vi) "urban area" means any area declared to be, or included in, a municipality under the provisions of clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (2) of Section 5 or declared to be a notified area under the provisions of sub section (4) of section 328, or deemed to be such under the pr0viso to that sub-section of the Assam Municipal Act, 1923 (Assam Act I of 1923) and includes a Cantonment as defined in Cantonments Act, 1924 (Act II of 1924).