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.