The Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1996 No. 25

LANDLORD AND TENANT

The Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

1st February 1996

Coming into operation

4th March 1996

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 33(2) of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, having complied with the requirements of Article 33(1) of the Order and determined that the rents hereinafter mentioned should be increased, hereby makes the following order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 4th March 1996.

Increase of registered rents

2.  The rents registered under Part V of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 for dwelling-houses which are let under regulated tenancies shall be increased by 2.75 per cent.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

J. McCormick

Assistant Secretary

1st February 1996.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order increases the rents of regulated tenancies registered with the Department of the Environment by 2.75 per cent from 4th March 1996. Under Article 22(4) of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 a notice of increase of rent which gives effect to such increases shall not take effect earlier than 4 weeks after the commencement of this Order, i.e., not earlier than 1st April 1996.

Before a landlord may recover an increased rent he must give a tenant at least 4 weeks' notice of the increase in accordance with Article 22(3)(b).

(1)

S.I. 1978/1050 (N.I. 20); See Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”