The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988
Northern Ireland Order in Council 1988 No. 1990 — creates 4 criminal offences.
- Made
- 14 November 1988
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Housing, planning, heritage and land
- Made under
- Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order makes further amendments to the law relating to housing in Northern Ireland. Part I is introductory. Part II imposes on the Northern Ireland Housing Executive duties in relation to persons who are found to be homeless or threatened with homelessness. In Part III, Articles 18 to 24 make miscellaneous amendments to the right to buy, to which secure tenants of the Executive are entitled under the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983. ArticlesI 25 to 28 amend certain provisions of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981. Articles 29 and 30 empower the Executive to make schemes for the purchase of houses evacuated in consequence of acts or threats of violence and for the carrying out of emergency repairs to houses. Part IV is supplementary.
Offences created by this instrument
- Penalty for failure to execute works article 113A(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- False statements, withholding information and failure to disclose change of circumstances article 17(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- False statements, withholding information and failure to disclose change of circumstances article 17(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Houses in multiple occupation: execution of works article 28 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1988