{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-tenancies-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-tenancies-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/011080032X",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-tenancies-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Tenancies which are protected tenancies",
  "text": "–\n(1) Article 3 of the Rent Order (protected tenancies) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted–\n“(1) A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if–\n(a) the Rent Restriction Acts applied to the dwelling-house immediately before the commencement of this Order (1st October 1978), and\n(b) the dwelling-house was, immediately after that commencement, let under that tenancy as a separate dwelling.\n(1A) A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if–\n(a) paragraph (2) applies to the dwelling-house, and\n(b) the dwelling-house was, immediately before the commencement of Article 56 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, let under that tenancy as a separate dwelling.”.\n(3) After paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted–\n“(2B) A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if, immediately before the commencement of Article 56 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, that tenancy was a protected tenancy by virtue of Article 5 of this Order.”.\n(4) After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted–\n“(3A) For the purposes of this Article, a dwelling-house may be a house or part of a house.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/011080032X/article/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:03.589532+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."
}