SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 19Family homes and domestic violence: Northern Ireland

Part 2Consequential amendments

Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1050 (N.I. 20))

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Amend Article 14 (extended discretion of court in certain proceedings for possession) as follows.

2

In paragraph (4A)(b), for “tenant’s spouse or former spouse, having matrimonial home rights” substitute “ tenant’s spouse or former spouse, or civil partner or former civil partner, having home rights ”.

3

In paragraph (4B)—

a

after “the spouse or former spouse” insert “ , or the civil partner or former civil partner, ”, and

b

for “those matrimonial home rights” substitute “ those home rights ”.

4

In paragraph (4C)—

a

in sub-paragraph (b), for “former spouse of the tenant” substitute “ former spouse or former civil partner of the tenant ”, and

b

in sub-paragraph (c) after “former spouse,” insert “ former civil partner, ”.

5

In paragraph (4D), after “former spouse,” insert “ former civil partner, ”.