Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made: 9th February 2004

Coming into operation: 8th March 2004

The Department for Social Development[^f00001], in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 33(2A) of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978[^f00002] and now exercisable by it[^f00003] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 8th March 2004.

Increase of registered rents

2

The rents registered under Part V of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 for dwelling houses which are let under regulated tenancies shall be increased by 3 percent.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 9th February 2004.

D. M. Crothers — A Senior Officer of the — Department for Social Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order increases the rents registered with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive under Part V of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 for the dwelling houses, which are let under regulated tenancies, by 3 percent from 8th March 2004. Under Article 22(4) of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 a notice of increase of rent which gives effect to an increase made by virtue of this Order shall not take effect earlier than 4 weeks after the commencement of this Order, i.e., not earlier than 5th April 2004.

A landlord must give a tenant at least 4 weeks' notice of the increase in accordance with Article 22(3)(b) of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1978/1050 (N.I. 20)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 6(e) and Schedule 4 Part V