Injunctions Against Anti-Social Behaviour (Prescribed Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made: 15th September 2003

Coming into operation: 1st November 2003

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the power conferred on it by Article 26(2)(d) and (e) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003[^f00001] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Injunctions Against Anti-Social Behaviour (Prescribed Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2003.

• (2) In these Regulations “the Order” means the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.

Prescribed premises

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• (1) The Department hereby prescribes accommodation held under non-secure tenancies from registered housing associations as a description of accommodation for the purposes of Article 26(2)(d) of the Order (power to grant injunctions against anti-social behaviour).

• (2) The Department hereby prescribes any private tenancy as a description of private tenancies for the purposes of Article 26(2)(e) of the Order (power to grant injunctions against anti-social behaviour).

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 15th September 2003.

D. M. Crothers — A senior officer of the — Department for Social Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

Article 26 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (power to grant injunctions against anti-social behaviour) allows the courts to grant, on application by the Housing Executive, a registered housing association or a private landlord, injunctions prohibiting a person from engaging or threatening to engage in anti-social behaviour in relation to certain descriptions of residential premises. Regulation 2 adds further categories of premises to which Article 26 applies.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2003/412 (N.I. 2); see Article 2(2) for the definitions of “the Department” and “prescribed” and Article 26(2)(e) for the definition of “private tenancy”