Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 6 May 2013.
Increase of registered rents
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the rents registered under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 during the period beginning on 2 April 2007 and ending on 7 April 2013 shall be increased by 3.6 percent.
(2) The provision at paragraph (1) does not apply to a rent entered on the Register of Rents unless a certificate of fitness has been issued except where such a certificate is not required.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 26 March 2013.
Jim Wilkinson
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development