Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009, and shall come into operation on 19th October 2009.
Increase of registered rents
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a rent
(a)entered on the Register of Rents, during the period beginning on 2nd April 2007 and ending on 6th April 2008, shall be increased by 5.9 percent; and
(b)entered on the Register of Rents, during the period beginning on 7th April 2008 and ending on 5th April 2009, shall be increased by 1.95 percent.
(2) The provision at paragraph (1) does not apply to a rent entered on the Register of Rents during those periods unless a certificate of fitness has also been issued during those periods except where such a certificate is not required.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 22nd September
Heather Cousins
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development