Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Made: 27th March 2015

Coming into operation: 4th May 2015

The Department has accepted the recommendation of the Rent Officer made under Article 55(4) of that Order that the rents referred to in Article 55(1) of that Order should be increased.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 4 May 2015.

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 5 April 2015 shall be increased by 4.85 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.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 27 March 2015.

Jim Wilkinson — A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order increases the rents registered with the rent officer for Northern Ireland under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 during the period beginning on 2 April 2007 and ending on 5 April 2015 by 4.85 percent.

A landlord must give a tenant at least 4 weeks’ notice of the increase in accordance with Article 49 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2006/1459 (N.I. 10)