The Business Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
Introductory Title and commencement (1) This Order may be cited as the Business Tenancies...
Introductory
1Title and commencement
2Interpretation
Application of the Order
3Tenancies to which this Order applies
4Tenancies to which this Order does not apply
Continuation, and termination or renewal, of tenancies
5Continuation of tenancies to which this Order applies until terminated in accordance with this Order
6Termination of tenancy by the landlord
7Request by tenant for a new tenancy
8Further provisions for the termination of tenancies to which this Order applies
9Agreements for future tenancies
Application to the Lands Tribunal
10Tenancy application by landlord or tenant
11Interim continuation of tenancies pending determination by the Lands Tribunal
12Opposition by landlord to new tenancy
13Provisions supplemental to Article 12
14Consequences where landlord successfully opposes
15Power of Lands Tribunal to order the grant of a new tenancy
16Property to be comprised in new tenancy
17Duration of new tenancy
18Rent under new tenancy
19Other terms of new tenancy
20Carrying out of order for new tenancy
21Compensation for landlord where tenant withdraws, etc., application or rejects new tenancy
22Powers of Lands Tribunal where landlord cannot be found or is under a disability
23Compensation where order for new tenancy is opposed on certain grounds
Miscellaneous provisions about tenancies
24Restrictions on agreements excluding provisions of this Order
25Agreements to surrender tenancies
26Restrictions on alienation or improvements
Supplemental
27Compensation for misrepresentation etc., or landlord's failure to fulfil intentions
28Penalties for fraud or the wilful concealment of material facts
29Duty of tenants and landlords of business premises to give information to each other
30Trusts
31Groups of companies
32Partnerships
33Provisions as to reversions
34Provision as to overholding
35Mesne landlords
36Mortgagees in possession
37Determination of tenancies of derelict land
38Application of capital money under the Settled Land Acts
39Protection of landlords in fiduciary capacities
40Provisions as to notices
41Service of notices, etc.
42Enforcement of orders of Lands Tribunal
43The Crown
44Transitional provisions and savings, amendments and repeals
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1PROVISIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ORDER WHERE SEVERAL PERSONS STAND IN RELATION OF LANDLORD AND TENANT
Definitions (1) In this Schedule the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them...
Definitions
1In this Schedule the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them in relation...
Acts of competent landlords binding on other landlords
2(1) Any notice to determine served by the competent landlord under this Order to terminate...
Provisions as to consent of mesne landlord to acts of competent landlord
3(1) If the competent landlord, not being the immediate landlord, serves any such notice or...
Consent of superior landlord required for agreements affecting his interest
4An agreement between the competent landlord and the tenant made for the purposes of this...
SCHEDULE 2TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS
Interpretation (1) In this Schedule— “the Act of 1964” means the Business Tenancies Act (Northern...
Interpretation
1In this Schedule— “the Act of 1964” means the Business Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 1964;...
Transitional provisions
2Where before the commencement a tenancy was terminated by the fall of a life or...
3Where, before the commencement,— (a) the landlord served a notice to determine under section 4...
4For the purposes of this Order, a notice served by the tenant under section 6...
5For the purposes of Article 23 the qualifying period may include a period beginning before...
6Where, before the commencement, an agreement had been made to which subsection (3) of section...
7Articles 2.5 and 26 shall apply only to tenancies entered into after the commencement.
8Article 27(2) shall not have effect where the tenant quit the holding before the commencement.
9Nothing in Article 29 shall apply to a notice under section 23 of the Act...
10(1) Notwithstanding the repeal by this Order of the Act of 1964, a claim for...
Savings
11Nothing in the Act of 1964 or this Order affects any right that any person...
12Nothing in this Order affects the operation of the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 .
Schedule 3—Amendments
Schedule 4—Repeals

1996 No. 725 (N.I. 5)

The Business Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 1996