The Business Tenancies (Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Business Tenancies (Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1997.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Order” means the Business Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;

a form referred to by number means the form so numbered in the Schedule.

Forms of notice

3.  The forms of notice set out in the Schedule shall be used as follows—

(a) a notice served under Article 5(2)(a) of the Order by the landlord, being a notice terminating a tenancy which has been continued by Article 5(1) and has subsequently ceased to be a tenancy to which the Order applies, shall be in Form 1;

(b) a notice served under Article 5(2)(c) of the Order by the immediate landlord, being a notice requiring possession at the date of expiry of a tenancy dependent on the effluxion of time, shall be in Form 2;

(c) a notice served under Article 6 of the Order, being the landlord’s notice to determine a tenancy to which the Order applies, shall be in Form 3;

(d) a notice served under Article 7 of the Order, being a tenant’s request for a new tenancy, shall be in Form 4;

(e) a notice served under Article 29 of the Order, being a notice for particulars, shall be in Form 5.

Revocation of Business Tenancies (Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1964

4.  The Business Tenancies (Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1964(1) are hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on

L.S.

James McKeown

Assistant Secretary

20th February 1997.