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RENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 69



69.(1) A county court shall have jurisdiction, either in the course of any
proceedings relating to a dwelling or on an application made for the purpose
by the landlord or the tenant, to determine any question

(a)as to whether a tenancy is a protected tenancy or whether any person is a
statutory tenant of a dwelling-house;

(b)as to the rent recoverable under a regulated or restricted tenancy;

(c)as to whether a tenancy is a restricted or regulated tenancy,

(2) A county court shall have jurisdiction to deal with any claim or other
proceedings arising out of any of the provisions of this Order (except
Part IX) notwithstanding that by any reason of the amount of the claim or
otherwise the case would not, apart from this paragraph, be within the
jurisdiction of a county court.

(3) If, under this Order, a person takes proceedings in the High Court which
he could have taken in the county court he shall not be entitled to receive
any costs.



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