Secure tenanciesN.I.
25.—(1) A tenancy under which a dwelling-house is let as a separate dwelling is a secure tenancy at any time when the conditions described below as the landlord condition and the tenant condition are satisfied, but subject to the exceptions in Schedule 2.
(2) The landlord condition is that the estate of the landlord belongs to—
(a)the Executive; or
(b)a registered housing association;
and in this Chapter references to the landlord mean any body which fulfils the landlord condition.
(3) The tenant condition is that the tenant is an individual and occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home; or where the tenancy is a joint tenancy, that each of the joint tenants is an individual and at least one of them occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home.