The Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

[F1 Electrical safety standards regulations: other enforcement N.I.

11K.— (1) Electrical safety standards regulations may make provision, for the enforcement of a duty imposed under Article 11I(1)—

(a) under which a landlord may be required to take remedial action;

(b) under which a district council may, with the consent of the tenant, arrange for a person to enter the dwelling-house and take remedial action.

(2) Regulations made by virtue of paragraph (1) may include, in particular, provision about procedural matters.

(3) Regulations made by virtue of paragraph (1) that make provision in connection with paragraph (1)(a) may include, in particular, provision enabling the landlord to make representations against any requirement to take remedial action.

(4) Regulations made by virtue of paragraph (1) that make provision in connection with paragraph (1)(b) may include, in particular, provision—

(a) about appeals against any proposed remedial action;

(b) enabling a district council to recover from the landlord any costs incurred by it in taking remedial action (“remedial costs”);

(c) enabling a district council to recover from any agent of the landlord any remedial costs, up to the total amount of money held by the agent on behalf of the landlord;

(d) under which any remedial costs due under the regulations are deemed, until recovered, to be charged on and payable out of the estate of the landlord in the land in relation to which the costs were incurred and the estate in that land of any person deriving title from the landlord;

(e) about the enforceability and registration of any charge created under the regulations;

(f) about the application of costs recovered.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Arts. 11I-11K and cross-heading inserted (28.4.2022 for specified purposes) by Private Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 20), s. 14(2)(f), Sch. 3 para. 2