Section 4December 22, 2001, Sec./Art. 4

Definition of Terms. The following terms as used in this Act shall be understood as:

(a) "Rental" shall mean the amount paid for the use or occupancy of a residential unit whether payment is made on a monthly or other basic.

(b) "Residential unit" shall refer to an apartment, house and/or land on which another's dwelling is located and used for residential purpose and shall include not only buildings parts or units thereof used solely as dwelling places, boarding houses, dormitories, rooms and bedspaces offered for rent by their owners, except motels, motel rooms, hotels, hotels rooms, but also those used for home industries, retail stores or other business purposes if the owner thereof and his or her family actually live therein and use it principally for dwelling purposes.

(c) "Immediate members of family of the lessee or lessor" for purposes of repossessing the leased promises, shall be limited to his or her spouse, direct descendants or ascendants, by consanguinity or affinity.

(d) "Lessee" shall mean the person renting a residential unit.

(e) "Owner/Lessor" shall include the owner or administrator or agent of the owner of the residential unit.

(f) "Sublessor" shall mean the person who leases or rents out a residential unit leased to him by an owner.

(g) "Sublessee" shall mean the person who leased or rents out a residential unit from a sublessor.

(h) "Assignment of lease" shall mean the act contemplated in Article 1649 of the Civil Code of the Philippines.