Section 56 — General interpretation of Part

In this Part—“banning order” has the meaning given by section 14; “banning order offence” has the meaning given by section 14; “body corporate” includes a body incorporated outside England and Wales; “database” means the database of rogue landlords and letting agents established under section 28; “English letting agency work” has the meaning given by section 54; “English property management work” has the meaning given by section 55; “financial penalty” means a penalty that— (a) is imposed in respect of conduct that amounts to an offence, but (b) is imposed otherwise than following the person's conviction for the offence; “housing” means a building, or part of a building, occupied or intended to be occupied as a dwelling or as more than one dwelling; “letting”— (a) includes the grant of a licence, but (b) except in Chapter 4, does not include the grant of a tenancy or licence for a term of more than 21 years, and “let” is to be read accordingly; “letting agency work” has the meaning given by section 54; “letting agent” has the meaning given by section 54; “local housing authority” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Housing Act 1985; “officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means— (a) any director, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or (b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity; “property agent” means a letting agent or property manager; “property manager” has the meaning given by section 55; “residential landlord” means a landlord of housing; “tenancy”— (a) includes a licence, but (b) except in Chapter 4, does not include a tenancy or licence for a term of more than 21 years.