SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18Housing and tenancies: Northern Ireland

Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1118 (N.I. 15))

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(1)

Amend Article 26 (succession on death of tenant) as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (2)(a), after “spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”.

(3)

In paragraph (3)(a), after “spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”.

(4)

In paragraph (4), for “paragraph (4A)” substitute “ paragraphs (4A) and (4B) ”.

(5)

After paragraph (4A) insert—

“(4B)

A tenant to whom the tenancy was assigned in pursuance of an order under any of the following provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004—

(a)

Part 2 of Schedule 15; or

(b)

paragraph 9(2) or (3) of Schedule 17,

is a successor only if the other civil partner was a successor.”