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Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013

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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2013 No. 86

Landlord And Tenant

Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013

Made

26th March 2013

Coming into operation

6th May 2013

The Department for Social Development, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 55(5) and (6) of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006(1).

The Department has accepted the recommendation of the Rent Officer made under Article 55(4) of that Order that the rents referred to in Article 55(1) of that Order should be increased.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 6 May 2013.

Increase of registered rents

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the rents registered under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 during the period beginning on 2 April 2007 and ending on 7 April 2013 shall be increased by 3.6 percent.

(2) The provision at paragraph (1) does not apply to a rent entered on the Register of Rents unless a certificate of fitness has been issued except where such a certificate is not required.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 26 March 2013.

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Jim Wilkinson

A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

This Order increases the rents registered with the rent officer for Northern Ireland under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 during the period beginning on 2 April 2007 and ending on 7 April 2013 by 3.6 percent.

A landlord must give a tenant at least 4 weeks’ notice of the increase in accordance with Article 49 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.

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