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This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2016.
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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 3rd April 2016 shall be increased by 1.3 percent.
(2) Article 2(1) shall not apply to a rent entered on the Register of Rents unless a certificate of fitness is in effect except where such a certificate is not required.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 24th June 2016
(L.S.)Jim Wilkinson
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
