UK Act of Parliament 1996 c. 725 United Kingdom

The Business Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

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Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Landlord4 Any Person1

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Landlord — also bound by 224 other Acts
Housing Act 1985 55 duties
Housing Act 1996 30 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.art007 Request by tenant for a new tenancy Regulated
  • Landlord must respond to tenant's request for new tenancy within 2 monthsLandlord
s.art010 Tenancy application by landlord or tenant Regulated
  • Landlords and tenants must follow strict deadlines for tenancy renewal applicationsLandlord
s.art020 Carrying out of order for new tenancy Regulated
  • Execute or accept a new tenancy contract following a Lands Tribunal orderLandlord
s.art026 Restrictions on alienation or improvements Regulated
  • Landlord must not unreasonably withhold consent to tenant's alienation or improvementLandlord
s.art029 Duty of tenants and landlords of business premises to give information to each other Regulated
  • Respond to notice for particulars within one monthAny Person
42 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001 Title and commencement
s.art002 Interpretation
s.art003 Tenancies to which this Order applies
s.art004 Tenancies to which this Order does not apply
s.art005 Continuation of tenancies to which this Order applies until terminated in accordance with this Order
s.art006 Termination of tenancy by the landlord
s.art008 Further provisions for the termination of tenancies to which this Order applies
s.art009 Agreements for future tenancies
s.art011 Interim continuation of tenancies pending determination by the Lands Tribunal
s.art012 Opposition by landlord to new tenancy
s.art013 Provisions supplemental to Article 12
s.art014 Consequences where landlord successfully opposes
s.art015 Power of Lands Tribunal to order the grant of a new tenancy
s.art016 Property to be comprised in new tenancy
s.art017 Duration of new tenancy
s.art018 Rent under new tenancy
s.art018 Rent under new tenancy conferring code rights
s.art018 Compensation for exercise of code rights
s.art018 Further provision about compensation under Article 18B
s.art019 Other terms of new tenancy
s.art021 Compensation for landlord where tenant withdraws, etc., application or rejects new tenancy
s.art022 Powers of Lands Tribunal where landlord cannot be found or is under a disability
s.art023 Compensation where order for new tenancy is opposed on certain grounds
s.art024 Restrictions on agreements excluding provisions of this Order
s.art025 Agreements to surrender tenancies
s.art027 Compensation for misrepresentation
s.art028 Penalties for fraud or the wilful concealment of material facts
s.art030 Trusts
s.art031 Groups of companies
s.art032 Partnerships
s.art033 Provisions as to reversions
s.art034 Provision as to overholding
s.art035 Mesne landlords
s.art036 Mortgagees in possession
s.art037 Determination of tenancies of derelict land
s.art038 Application of capital money under the Settled Land Acts
s.art039 Protection of landlords in fiduciary capacities
s.art040 Provisions as to notices
s.art041 Service of notices, etc.
s.art042 Enforcement of orders of Lands Tribunal
s.art043 The Crown
s.art044 Transitional provisions and savings, amendments and repeals
Schedules

Schedules

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16 other schedules
s.sch001 In this Schedule the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them in relation...
s.sch001 (1) Any notice to determine served by the competent landlord under this Order to terminate...
s.sch001 (1) If the competent landlord, not being the immediate landlord, serves any such notice or...
s.sch001 An agreement between the competent landlord and the tenant made for the purposes of this...
s.sch002 In this Schedule— “the Act of 1964” means the Business Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 1964;...
s.sch002 (1) Notwithstanding the repeal by this Order of the Act of 1964, a claim for...
s.sch002 Nothing in the Act of 1964 or this Order affects any right that any person...
s.sch002 Nothing in this Order affects the operation of the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 .
s.sch002 Where before the commencement a tenancy was terminated by the fall of a life or...
s.sch002 Where, before the commencement,— (a) the landlord served a notice to determine under section 4...
s.sch002 For the purposes of this Order, a notice served by the tenant under section 6...
s.sch002 For the purposes of Article 23 the qualifying period may include a period beginning before...
s.sch002 Where, before the commencement, an agreement had been made to which subsection (3) of section...
s.sch002 Articles 2.5 and 26 shall apply only to tenancies entered into after the commencement.
s.sch002 Article 27(2) shall not have effect where the tenant quit the holding before the commencement.
s.sch002 Nothing in Article 29 shall apply to a notice under section 23 of the Act...

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