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Premises and building, means, use for the purpose of business or profession and the expression resi-dential accommodation including any accommoda-tion in the nature of Guest house, Britina Industries Ltd. v. C.I.T., (2006) 1 SCC 646. [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 37(3)(4)(5)]...
Flat
Flat. A set of rooms on one floor of a house usually let unfurnished in many separate flats, which for all legal purposes are separate houses. For the purposes of the Housing Act, 1936, defined as a separate and self-contained set of premises constructed for use for the purposes of a dwelling and forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally, and 'block of flats,' a building which contains two or more flats and consists of three or more storeys exclusive of any storey which is constructed for use for purposes other than those of a dwelling. See Blackwell on the Law of Residential Flats; Woodfall, L. and T., and Forms in Appendix B. of that work.adj. without an allowance or charge for accused interest, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 652.A house in a larger block; an apartment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 652.Flat, means a separate set of premises forming part of a building being a set of premises occupied wholly or mainly as a private dwelling,...
House, shop or building
House, shop or building, includes any premises appurtenant to the building (English) Riot (Dam-ages) Act, 1886, s. 9 [Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 242]....
Premises
Premises (pr'missa), in logic, propositions antecedently supposed or proved. In a deed the 'premises' are all the parts preceding the habendum. The word properly applies to what has been previously described or mentioned, and is used only in that sense in well-drawn instruments (Dav. Prec. in Conveyancing, vol. i.). It is, however, often used as meaning land or houses.For the statutory meaning, see particular statutes, e.g., (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, where 'premises' includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements, tenements and hereditaments of any tenure.Include any shop, stall, or place where any article of good is sold or manufactured or stored for sale. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954), s. 2 (xi)]Means any land or any building or part of a building and includes-The garden, grounds and outhouses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building, andAny fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial en...
Heritage building
Heritage building, means any building of one or more premises or any part thereof which requires preservation and conservation for historical, architectural environmental or cultural importance, and includes such portion of the adjoining such building or all parts thereof as may be required for fencing or covering or otherwise preserving such building, and also includes the areas and buildings requiring preservation and conservation for the purpose as aforesaid under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a) of sub-section (4) of section 31 of the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) Act, 1979 (West Bengal Act 13 of 1979), monuments of heritage importance, as defined in clause (i) of this section precincts or such other sites commonly considered for heritage importance, the West Bengal Heritage Commission Act, 2001, s. 2(f)....
Certain premises
Certain premises, for the purpose of ascertaining the legislative policy must be construed having regard to the definition of 'building only'. The word certain premises, having regard to its applicability in the urban areas, would also mean that the premises situated in the urban area and not in rural area, Vasu Dev Singh v. Union of India, 2006 (II) SCALE 108....
Place
Place, denotes an area within known boundary areas notified to be within two different boundaries cannot be same place, Bajaj Plastic Ltd. v. Collector Central Excise, (1987) 1 Bom LR 566: (1987) Mah LR 681.Place, is not a synonym for country and it is one of the rules of interpretation that surplusages are not used in enactments. The word 'place' definitely connotes a different meaning from the word 'country'. It means that where the product of one town is being described as the product of another town, Dharam Deo Gupta v. State, AIR 1958 All 865.Place, may be a large area; all that is necessary is that the place should be sufficiently so defined that the public is reasonably notified of its extent. There is not much distinction between a place and an area, and so long as it is clearly specified and well-defined in the order, there is no illegality in including an area as large as a district within the scope of an order. The public generally can be subjected to the inhabitation irresp...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
Occupier
Occupier, includes, --(i) any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable.(ii) an owner in occupation of or otherwise using his land or building.(iii) a rent-free tenant of any land or building, and(iv) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of any land or building. [The Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(i)]Means a person who occupies a site or building within a zone and including his successors and assignees. [The Rajasthan Special Economic Zones Development Act, 2003, s. 2(h)]Occupier, of a jute-mill means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the jute-mill. [The West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(25)]The person residing in or upon or having a right to reside in or upon any house, land, or place; formerly rateable to the poor rate under the Poor Rel...
Owner
Owner, for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1936, s. 343, replacing s. 4 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act (5 Edw. 7, c. ccix.), 'the person for the time being receiving the rack-rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee, or who would so receive the same if the same were let at a rack-rent' (see that title), and Kensington Corporation v. Allen, (1926) 1 KB 576.In relation to an industrial undertaking, means the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the undertaking, and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent shall be deemed to be the owner of the undertaking. [Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (f)]In relation to an undertaking, means an individual Hindu undi...
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