Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978

2.  Where no such certificate as is mentioned in paragraph 1 is produced to the court, accommodation shall be deemed to be suitable for the purposes of Article 13(1)( a) if it consists of either—N.I.

(a)premises which are to be let as a separate dwelling such that they will then be let on a protected tenancy, or[F1 (other than one under which the landlord might recover possession of the dwelling-house under one of the Cases in Part II of this Schedule)]

(b)premises to be let as a separate dwelling on terms which will, in the opinion of the court, afford to the tenant security of tenure reasonably equivalent to the security afforded by Part III of this Order in the case of a protected tenancy[F1 of a kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)].

and, in the opinion of the court, the accommodation fulfils the relevant conditions as defined in paragraph 3.