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Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2005 No. 29

LANDLORD AND TENANT

Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

2nd February 2005

Coming into operation

7th March 2005

The Department for Social Development(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 33(2A) and (2B) of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(2) and now exerciseable by it(3) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, having accepted the recommendation of the Executive made under Article 33(2) of that Order that the rents referred to in Article 33(1) of that Order should be increased, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005, and shall come into operation on 7th March 2005.

Increase of registered rents

2.  The rents registered under Part V of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 for dwelling houses which are let under regulated tenancies shall be increased by 3.1 percent.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 2nd February 2005.

L.S.

D. M. Crothers

A Senior Officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order increases the rents registered with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive under Part V of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (“the Rent Order”) for the dwelling houses, which are let under regulated tenancies, by 3.1 percent from 7th March 2005. Under Article 22(4) of the Rent Order a notice of increase of rent which gives effect to an increase made by virtue of this Order shall not take effect earlier than 4 weeks after the commencement of this Order, i.e., not earlier than 4th April 2005.

A landlord must give a tenant at least 4 weeks' notice of the increase in accordance with Article 22(3)(b) of the Rent Order.

(1)

S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)

(2)

S.I. 1978/1050 (N.I. 20); paragraphs (2A) and (2B) were added to Article 33 by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2003/412 (N.I. 2)

(3)

S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 6(e) and Schedule 4 Part V

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