The Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019

Made: 11th April 2019

Coming into operation: 13th May 2019

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) 2019 and shall come into operation on 13th May 2019.

Increase of registered rents

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• (1) Subject to paragraph (2) the rents registered under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2006 during the period beginning on 2 April 2007 and ending on 12 May 2019 shall be increased by 1.8 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 Communities on 11th April 2019.

David Polley — A senior officer of the Department for Communities

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 12 May 2019 by 1.8 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)