75. Application of Part VIII
Feedback & supportIn the interpretation of this Part, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires, “lease” includes a sublease; but nothing in this Part shall be taken to authorise the breach of a covenant against subletting.
Part III of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act [Cap. 61] applies, mutatis mutandis, to leases of registered land; but this Part does not apply to leases of land made before that land has been brought under the provisions of this Act.
registered land
“registered land” means land which has been brought under the provisions of this Act by being included in a folio of the land-register;
Nothing in this Act affects any rule or principle of law relating to the quiet enjoyment of land by a lessee.[71
land
“land” means the surface of any defined parcel of the earth, and all substances thereunder, and so much of the column of air above the surface as is reasonably necessary for the proprietor’s use and enjoyment, and includes any estate or interest in land and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto. Subject to any provision to the contrary the proprietorship of land includes natural rights to air, light, water and support and the right of access to any highway on which the land abuts;