The Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006
Northern Ireland Order in Council 2006 No. 1459 — creates 10 criminal offences.
- Made
- 7 June 2006
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Housing, planning, heritage and land
- Made under
- 2000 (c. 1), Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000
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 provision with respect to privately rented dwelling-houses in Northern Ireland. PART II deals with certain obligations of landlords and tenants under private tenancies. Part III empowers district councils to issue notices of unfitness and notices of disrepair in respect of dwelling-houses let under private tenancies. PART IV provides for certificates of fitness to be issued in respect of certain dwelling-houses and for the determination of a rent limit in respect of tenancies which are subject to control. PART V amends the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 and Part VI contains provisions of a miscellaneous or supplemental nature.
Offences created by this instrument
- Where the person upon whom a notice of unfitness or a notice of disrepair in respect of a dwelling-house has been… article 24(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Obstruction article 28 · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Landlord’s application to have dwelling-house inspected article 33(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Tenant to be given notice regarding certain matters article 4(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Tenant to be provided with a rent book article 5(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Rent in excess of rent limit to be irrecoverable by landlord article 50(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Rent in excess of rent limit to be irrecoverable by landlord article 50(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Information as to ownership of dwelling-houses article 65(3) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Service of notices on landlord’s agents article 66(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- If any person fails without reasonable cause to comply with any notice served on him under sub-paragraph (1)(a), he… paragraph 1(2) of SCHEDULE 2 · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
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- Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 Lords · Lords Chamber · 17 May 2006
How Parliament handled it
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Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 2006