Section 2: Interpretation

2. Interpretation In this Act— “acquisition” includes the taking of possession; “authorised officer” means any person designated as such under section 25; “Board” means a Board of Assessment appointed under section 15; L3 – 1 [Issue 3] Land Acquisition Act “body corporate” means a body corporate of the kind described in section 8 (6) of the Constitution; “Chairperson” means Chairperson of the Board; “divesting order” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Curatelle Act; “interested person”— (a) means a person who owns, possesses, holds a mortgage or charge over, is entitled to or is otherwise interested in, land— (i) described in a notice published under section 8 or 9; or (ii) affected by the exercise of the powers conferred on the authorised officer under section 6 (4); (b) does not include— (i) a tenant, the term of whose lease is less than one month; (ii) a person who, otherwise than by the operation of the law relating to testamentary or intestate succession, acquires an interest in land, the acquisition of which is contemplated under this Act, after service of notice on the owner under section 8 or 9; “land” includes buildings and any right or interest in land; “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of lands is assigned; “owner” means the person capable of alienating any land; “party” means the authorised officer, an interested person who has made a claim for compensation under this Act or a person on whose behalf Government is acting under section 5; “period of public emergency” has the same meaning as in Chapter II of the Constitution; “vesting order” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Curatelle Act.