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SMALL DWELLINGS ACQUISITION ACT 1899 - SECT 10

Residence and ownership.

10.(1) A person shall not be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be
resident in a house unless he is both the occupier of and resident in that
house.

(2) For the purposes of this Act "ownership" shall be such interest or
combination of interests in a house as, together with the interest of the
purchaser of the ownership, will constitute either a fee simple in possession
or a leasehold interest in possession of at least sixty years unexpired at the
date of the purchase.

(3) Where the ownership of a house is acquired by means of an advance under
this Act, the purchaser of the ownership, or, in the case of any devolution or
transfer, the person in whom the interest of the purchaser is for the time
being vested, shall be the proprietor of the house for the purposes of
this Act.

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