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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-13",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110443462",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Persons qualified to succeed tenant",
  "text": "A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under an introductory tenancy if he occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home at the time of the tenant’s death and either—\n(a) he is the tenant’s spouse, or\n(b) he is another member of the tenant’s family and has resided with the tenant throughout the period of 12 months ending with the tenant’s death;\nunless, in either case, the tenant was himself a successor, as defined in Article 14.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110443462/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:40.645129+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}