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RENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 39



39.(1) If the landlord under a private tenancy fails to comply with Article
38, he and, subject to paragraph (4), any person who on his behalf demands or
receives rent in respect of the dwelling-house held under that tenancy while
the failure continues shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable to a
fine not exceeding #400.

(3) If any default in respect of which a landlord is convicted of an offence
under paragraph (1) continues for more than fourteen days after that
conviction, that landlord shall be deemed to have committed a further offence
under that paragraph in respect of that default.

(4) If any person other than the landlord is charged with an offence under
paragraph (1), it shall be a defence for him to prove that he neither knew nor
had reasonable cause to believe that Article 38 had not been complied with.



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