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RENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 25



25.(1) The Department shall prepare and keep up to date a register of rents
payable under regulated and restricted tenancies of dwelling-houses and shall
make the register available for public inspection without charge at such place
and at such times as the Department considers appropriate.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this Part, the rent registered for
a tenancy of a dwelling-house shall be

(a)if it is a regulated tenancy for which an appropriate rent has not been
determined, the appropriate proportion of the net annual value of the
dwelling-house multiplied by two and one-half, together with any increases
which have effect by virtue of an order under Article 33;

(b)if it is a regulated tenancy for which an appropriate rent has been
determined, that rent, together with any increases which have effect in
relation to that rent by virtue of an order under Article 33;

(c)if it is a restricted tenancy, the rent payable under the tenancy
immediately before the commencement of this Order.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a)

(a)if the rent under a regulated tenancy is payable weekly

(i)the appropriate proportion of the net annual value of the dwelling-house is
one fifty-second;

(ii)the product of the appropriate proportion of any net annual value and two
and one-half shall be deemed not to exceed #8;

(b)if the rent under a regulated tenancy is payable monthly

(i)the appropriate proportion of the net annual value of the dwelling-house is
one-twelfth;

(ii)the product of the appropriate proportion of any net annual value and two
and one-half shall be deemed not to exceed #35;

(4) The register shall contain, in addition to the rent, the prescribed
particulars with regard to the tenancy and the dwelling-house.

(5) The Department may at any time correct any clerical error in the register.

(6) Where the Department corrects a clerical error under paragraph (5), it
shall serve a notice of the alteration on the landlord and tenant under the
tenancy in question.

(7) A copy of an entry in the register purporting to be certified under the
hand of an officer of the Department shall be receivable in evidence in any
court and in any proceedings.

(8) A person requiring such a certified copy shall be entitled to obtain it on
payment of the prescribed fee.



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