Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, no person shall, without the previous permission of the Health Officer, erect any back-to-back houses intended to be used as dwelling houses and any such house the erection of which is begun after the commencement of this Act without such permission shall be deemed to be unfit for human habitation within the meaning of Section 102.
PART Iii—Abatement of overcrowding.
104. Definitions—In this Part—
(1) “tenement” means a dwelling house and includes—
(a) any part of a dwelling house which is capable of separate occupation; and
(b) a students’ hostel under public or recognised control but does not include a dwelling house or part of a dwelling house occupied by the owner thereof;
and
(2) “landlord” means the immediate landlord of the occupier or occupiers of a tenement.