PART VAMENDMENTS OF THE RENT ORDER
Tenancies which are protected tenancies56
1
Article 3 of the Rent Order (protected tenancies) shall be amended as follows.
2
For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted–
1
A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if–
a
the Rent Restriction Acts applied to the dwelling-house immediately before the commencement of this Order (1st October 1978), and
b
the dwelling-house was, immediately after that commencement, let under that tenancy as a separate dwelling.
1A
A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if–
a
paragraph (2) applies to the dwelling-house, and
b
the dwelling-house was, immediately before the commencement of Article 56 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, let under that tenancy as a separate dwelling.
3
After paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted–
2B
A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if, immediately before the commencement of Article 56 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, that tenancy was a protected tenancy by virtue of Article 5 of this Order.
4
After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted–
3A
For the purposes of this Article, a dwelling-house may be a house or part of a house.