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This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 8 May 2012.
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(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the rents registered under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 during the period beginning on 2nd April 2007 and ending on 1 April 2012 shall be increased by 5.6 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.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 23 March 2012.
Jim Wilkinson
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
