Cap. 199 ст. 2Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

"agricultural land" means any land which is mainly let for the growing of crops, flowers, fruit-trees or vines and for cognate agricultural purposes, including the erection of glasshouses, cloches or cold frames, but does not include grazing grounds;

"assignee of the lease" includes a sub-tenant and, where there is neither a person to whom the lease has been assigned nor a sub-tenant, the person who is in the actual enjoyment of the lease by the tenant’s express or tacit consent, and "assignment" shall be construed accordingly;

"Board" means the Rural Leases Control Board established under article 5;

"conditions" includes the rent payable in respect of a lease; "date of termination" means the last day on which the period of the lease whose conditions the lessor proposes to change or which the lessor does not intend to renew expires;

"lease" means a lease for an agreed total period not exceeding sixteen years for a rent in money or other consideration payable yearly in one or more instalments and includes a lease tacitly renewed from year to year or renewed by a decision of the Board under this Act, but does not include either an emphyteusis or an agreement of lease in virtue of which the produce is to be apportioned between the lessor and the tenant; it also includes "sub-lease" in relation to sub-lessor and sub-tenant;

"lessor" includes a sub-lessor in relation to a sub-tenant; "Malta" means the Island of Malta and the Islands of Gozo and Comino; "member of the family" means a lineal ascendant, a lineal descendant, a widow or a widower, a son-in-law, and a widowed daughter-in-law while not remarried, of the tenant;

"tenant" includes any member of the family who is an assignee of the lease and, after the tenant’s death, where there is no such member, it includes in order of preference any member of the family who is a legatee of the lease or who, during the last year immediately preceding the tenant’s death, was living with the tenant or has been working the agricultural land with him or for him or is the tenant’s heir; it includes also, in relation to a sub-lessor, a sub-tenant, which expression shall be deemed in such relation to have the same meaning as tenant in its full extent.