In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "accommodation" means house accommodation in any cantonment to which this Ordinance applies, and includes—
(i) the gardens, grounds or outhouses, if any, appurtenant to the house or any part thereof;
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(ii) any furniture supplied by the landlord for use in the house or any part thereof;
(in) any fittings affixed to the house or any part of the house for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;
(b) "district magistrate" includes an officer authorised by a district magistrate to perform any of his functions under this Ordinance
(c) "landlord" means a person to whom rent is payable by a tenant in respect of any accommodation, and includes—
(i) the agent, attorney, heir or assignee of the landlord, and
(ii) a tenant in relation to a sub-tenant;
(d) "lease" includes a sub-lease;
(e) "municipal assessment" means—
(i) in respect of accommodation which Was assessed by a cantonment board on or before the 1st day of April, 1942, t1"1 annual rental value so assessed and in force on the said date, a
(ii) in respect of accommodation which was assessed by a cantonment board after the said date, the annual rental value first assessed after the said date;
(/) "officer commanding the station" means the military officer for the time being in command of the forces in a cantonment or, if that officer is the Officer Commanding the Area or Officer Commandingin-Chief, the Command, the military officer who would be in command of those forces in the absence of the Officer Commanding the Area and Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command;
(g) "reasonable annual rent" means—
(1) in the case of accommodation constructed before the 1st day of October, 1946,—
(i) if it is separately assessed to municipal assessment, its municipal assessment plus twenty-five per cent, thereon;
(ii) if it is a part only of the accommodation so assessed, the proportionate amount of the municipal assessment of such accommodation plus twenty-five per cent, thereon;
(Hi) if it is not assessed to municipal assessment—
(a) if it was held by a tenant on rent between the 1st day of April, 1942 and the 30th day of September, 1946, fifteen times the rent for the one month nearest to and after the 1st day of April, 1942; and
(b) if it was not so held on rent, the amount determined under section 7; and
(2) in the case of accommodation constructed on or after the 1st day of October, 1946, the rent determined in accordance with section 7;
(h) "tenant" means the person by whom rent is, or, but for a contract express or implied, would be, payable for any accommodation, and includes any person holding or occupying the accommodation as a sub-tenant.